Abstract
With the great, constant renovation and development of various knowledge and economy, talents of compound, high quality and high skills are in urgent need in society; a new educational reform runs through the whole foreign teaching courses, including audio-visual course, speaking, reading, writing and translating courses. With the aid of computers, films (DVD, Mp3 etc.) play an important role in foreign language labs in China. More and more students are interested in not only for oral but also for the process of acquiring languages. Now students are becoming stronger and stronger in their curiosity for knowledge and comprehension for acquiring languages. Therefore, the foreign teachers are confronted with the great challenges: 1) How to make audio-visual classes become effective learning process instead of pure entertainment in class; 2) How to make students become active participants in class. 3) How to practice rehearse the kinds of listening and speaking in the classroom? 4) How to help students build confidence in dealing with the language? 5) How to design classroom procedures on students’ listening and speaking abilities? So, the purpose of this paper is to introduce some useful and practical methods to build students’ confidence in learning English; and also to exploit the design of films’ class through multimedia.
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3) How to practice rehearse the kinds of listening and speaking in the classroom? 4) How to help students build confidence in dealing with the language? 5) How to design classroom procedures on students’ listening and speaking abilities? So, the purpose of this paper is to introduce some useful and practical methods to build students’ confidence in learning English; and to exploit the design of films’ class through multimedia
Compared with the traditional teaching-centered, book-centered, grammar-translation method, films on videos and computers are gradually regarded as a challenge for the routine language teaching, especially for the dominant intensive reading in classroom
The film is too long, the course will be involved in entertaining class; as a result, the students don’t make full use of the hours study spontaneously with the target task which probably leads to the failure in achieving the planned, expected teaching effect
Summary
Compared with the traditional teaching-centered, book-centered, grammar-translation method, films on videos (or VCD, DVD, etc.) and computers are gradually regarded as a challenge for the routine language teaching, especially for the dominant intensive reading in classroom. Some films will normally last one hour, even two hours, that is to say, the audio-visual class will become a simple entertainment class, just watching films pleasurably rather than language learning process, so that the students lose their clear, exact directions. Maybe they will be led to failure in practice. The film is too long, the course will be involved in entertaining class; as a result, the students don’t make full use of the hours study spontaneously with the target task which probably leads to the failure in achieving the planned, expected teaching effect. In order to make the film class successful, they have to endure great pressures from films’ preparations and assignments to its guidance, inspects and exams etc. most of them are invisible and innumerable
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