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，它不仅试验了在电脑室使用CD-ROM教材，而且试验了在没有电脑的普通教室中使用“Power Point”进行演示和使用数字摄像机进行演示。虽然在使用CD-ROM材料时，学习者总体上感到满意，但指出了硬件方面的问题，软件方面的问题，如设置语音不识别等。由于这类光盘材料是单独作为教材完成的，因此很难在一堂课中与其他教学方法并行处理。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作业进行的。在德语教学、计算机和软件的操作、信息检索方法等方面为学员提供支持，学员积极参与，自发备课。这是将项目化教学与多媒体教学相结合的成功尝试。数字视频的使用试验旨在探索在没有计算机的外语课堂中使用多媒体的可能性。学生们做了一些短剧，并拍成了录像带。很明显，像制作ppt和短视频这样的积极使用的试验对外语学习有很大的影响。

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.