Multimedia use and Foreign Language Learning

本研究对学习者在课堂上使用多媒体外语学习环境的反应进行了实验和调查。作为多媒体使用的案例，不仅在计算机教室使用CD-ROM教材，而且在没有计算机的普通教室使用“Power Point”演示和使用数码摄像机进行了实验。虽然使用CD-ROM教材的结果总体上令学习者满意，但硬件的问题，软件的问题，例如发音不被识别的设置。由于这种光盘材料本身就是教学材料，因此很难与其他教学方法在一堂课中并行处理。在Power Point的例子中，主题的选择，通过互联网收集信息，以及关于主题的演示是作为小组工作进行的。学习者在德语教学、计算机和软件操作、信息搜索方法等方面得到了支持。学习者非常积极地参与，他们自发地为课程做准备。数字视频教学的尝试是将项目导向教学法与多媒体教学相结合的一次成功尝试，旨在探索多媒体教学在没有计算机的外语课堂中应用的可能性。学习者制作了一些视频短片，可以看出，像制作Power Point演示文稿和短片这样的主动使用的尝试在外语学习中有很大的作用。

In this research, experiment and investigation were conducted about the reaction of learners using multimedia of foreign language learning environment in a classroom. As cases of multimedia use, it experimented not only about the use of CD-ROM teaching materials in a computer room but about the trial of the presentation using "Power Point" and the trial of using digital camcorder in a normal classroom without computer.Although the result that the learners are satisfied in general has come out when CD-ROM materials are used, the trouble of hardware, the problem of software, such as a setup that pronunciation is not recognized, are pointed out. Since such CD-ROM materials are completed as teaching materials by itself, it is difficult to treat in a lesson in parallel to other teaching methods.In the example of Power Point, a choice of a theme, the information gathering via the Internet, and the presentation about the theme were made as group work. The learners were supported on German instruction, operation of a computer and software, the method of information search etc.Learners are participated very positively, they prepared for the lesson spontaneously. It was the successful trial for combining the project-oriented method and multimedia use.The trial of digital video use was intended to search a possibility of multimedia use in a foreign language classroom without computer. The learners made some short plays which were taken in video.It became clear that the trials of active use like producing Power Point presentations and short play videos have a big effect in the foreign language learning.