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。作为多媒体应用的案例，不仅对计算机机房光盘教材的使用进行了试验，而且在没有计算机的普通教室中进行了使用Power Point演示的试验和使用数码摄像机的试验。虽然使用光盘教材取得了令学习者总体满意的结果，但也指出了硬件和软件的问题，如设置发音不识别等。由于这些光盘材料本身就是教材，很难与其他教学方法在一节课上并行处理。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陈述都是以小组活动形式进行的。学员在德语教学、计算机和软件操作、信息检索方法等方面得到了支持，学员参与非常积极，他们自发地为课程做准备。这是以项目为导向的教学方法与多媒体应用相结合的一次成功尝试。数字视频应用的尝试旨在探索在没有计算机的外语课堂上使用多媒体的可能性。学习者制作了一些短剧并录制成视频，很明显，积极使用的尝试，如制作Power Point演示文稿和短剧视频，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.