Effective English Multimedia Teaching Material for Beginners at Elementary School: Suggestions from EEG Analyses

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Brain activation was recorded during pupils' English lessons. High validity and less time consumed for the measurement using dry cell electrodes were confirmed.The findings are as follows:Theta wave power increases most among alpha, beta, and theta wave powers. Theta wave power in the mid-frontal area (Fm theta) is highly correlated to brain activation during both English vocabulary and reading-aloud tasks.During vocabulary learning with captions,Fm theta is higher than that without captions. Fm thata during reading-aloud task with captions and rhythmic symbols is higher than that without them and the post test proved effective. Proficiency in vocabulary is highly correlated to that in spelling recognition. There were higher and lower groups in English proficiency at the end of the 5th grade schooling. Effective teaching materials with pictures, sound, and captions for vocabulary learning, and ones with pictures, sound, captions, and rhythmic symbols for reading tasks were designed.