Multimedia Technology Application in Foreign Language Teaching

The ideal state of Foreign Language Teaching is to create a truly authentic environment of language learning,which enables students to learn a foreign language in the same way as to learn their mother tongue.However,it is difficult to achieve the ideal state in traditional form of teaching.Compared to the conventional form,teaching with multimedia has its own advantages,like comprehensive,non-linear,non-structural editable and storable features.The multimedia technology plays an important role in foreign language teaching.The well-illustrated PowerPoint courseware provides students with vivid English language environment and pure authentic language data,which increase their knowledge as well as develop the ability of English speaking and listening.However,the multimedia technology can only play a supporting role in foreign language teaching.In foreign language teaching activities,the interaction and communication between teacher and students in class is the most effective teaching approach.Therefore,in the foreign language teaching with multimedia,it is proper to develop the advantages of multimedia technology,and meanwhile to deny the traditional teaching mode and inappropriate teaching methods,in order to play the role of the multimedia technology in foreign language teaching.