Khlyzova N.
Irkutsk State Linguistic University
Irkutsk, Russia
Dynamical progress of information technologies in a modern society causes a necessity to change educational process, specifythe purpose, develop new pedagogical technologies, introduce more effective methods and means of teaching. Multimedia became one of the leading means of teaching today. Studying potentialities of multimedia in media education of students shows thatmultimedia can be used as means of teaching the English language and as means of media education. As means of teaching English,multimedia realizes the unidirectional didactic function and increases efficiency of the teaching process. As means of mediaeducation, multimedia aims to form media competence of students, skills to select, evaluate and independently create messages.Research of multimedia is hold by E.V. Jakushina, T.V. Kovsharova, E.A. Filippov, R. Grebinder, D. Davidson etc.L.S. Zaznobina defines multimedia as: «a complex of means to process and represent audio/video and printed information andcomputer technologies for processing information» [Zaznobina, 2002]. The author accents the functional part of the phenomenon,considers multimedia as means of software and hardware.English, being means of communication, as well as any other language, is known to be means of receiving and sendinginformation. English-speaking communication is the basic educational activity of linguistic university students so multimediabecomes effective means of teaching English as it gives huge opportunities of the authentic communications. Speech habit of thestudents are not formed well or not formed at all in condition when practice of English is absent. Multimedia dialogue is alternative to artificial created dialogue without any participation of native speakers. By means of multimedia we have a possibility to carry outlanguage dialogue with people from any English-speaking countries. Not many Russian families can afford a studying trip to the foreign countries. Multimedia helps to make a virtual travel to any country by choice, to practise English, to go sightseeing, to studyrealities, traditions, culture of a certain state. In such kind of activity formation and development of media skills of students such as searching necessary data in English, selection necessary information are realized in such kind of activity.The success of teaching depends on the interest of students to the subject, on their desire to learn it. Sometimes classes passby, not leaving a trace in education of students. Studying time is whiled away by drawing pictures, talking to the neighbor or sending SMS. In some cases the stimulus is very difficult to create. But the high motivation to study English is observed by using multimediawhich gives a variety of forms of teaching from listening to audio records and watching video, up to works with computer programs and dialogue in a chat. As it is known, all these kinds of activity are sources of entertainments of students during leisure time. Theprocess of teaching English becomes interesting, easy and thus, productive. The development of language skills and media skills is carried out not only in the university at the classes of English, but also in the daily life of students.Studying English, the students quite often face a problem of the language barrier. They hesitate to speak, afraid to makemistakes. Even in favorable psychological atmosphere they feel discomfort. The multimedia programs equipped by sound recording tasks build less stressful conditions. Each student individually has an opportunity to write down his/her speech, to listen to it andcompare to the authentic speech. Such kind of work removes the psychological difficulties of speaking, develops practical skills,phonetic skill and media skill without a trauma of the psyche of the students.Pedagogy develops and our task is to catch it up, use new technologies, methods and means of teaching, one of which is multimedia. Multimedia is universal means, as it can be used at teaching to make the studying process effective, interesting andaccessible; at media education to form media competence of the students, ability to select, analyze and create messages. We suppose that using multimedia as the leading means of organizing teaching process gives a unique opportunity of integrated teaching English and media education.
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