Multimedia technology is a new subject based on computer technology, which integrates audio-visual, graphics, text and animation. It has been widely used in teaching, especially in English teaching. Using multimedia technology to assist teaching can stimulate students' interest in learning, activate classroom atmosphere, attract students' attention, improve students' understanding ability, tap students' learning potential, break through teaching difficulties and optimize classroom structure, thus improving classroom teaching effect. However, in the use of multimedia and courseware making, due to improper handling, multimedia teaching did not play its due role, but usurped the role of the host, which violated the purpose of multimedia "auxiliary" teaching, and made students glance at the flowers in class, inadvertently paying too much attention, which led to classroom teaching becoming a mere formality, let alone really giving full play to students' subjectivity. This paper will explain how to use multimedia technology to assist middle school English classroom teaching to achieve teaching goals.

Keywords: English classroom teaching; Multimedia; Application problems; Teaching effect; 1. What are the benefits of multimedia technology for classroom teaching? 1. Create a learning atmosphere and stimulate students' interest.

Bruner said: "The best stimulus of learning is interest in the materials learned", and interest is the driving force of learning knowledge. Einstein once said, "Interest is the best teacher". As an active psychological factor in the internal drive system, interest plays a catalytic role in learning. Let songs and games enter the picture, let unknown things appear in front of students, and let exotic customs and customs not found in books use multimedia technology to enrich and enliven the classroom. Once students are interested in what they have learned, they will be in high spirits, concentrate in class, think positively about the questions raised by teachers and dare to answer them. Based on the above reasons, teachers should use multimedia to display teaching contents from words, sounds, animations and other aspects, so as to attract students, improve their attention, mobilize students' learning emotions of active inquiry and enhance their thirst for knowledge. 2. Create a learning environment, set up teaching scenarios, and break through teaching difficulties.

Hamboldt, a German linguist, said: "We can't teach a language, we can only create conditions for learning various languages." In other words, language learning is inseparable from specific situations. Language learning needs to be gradually formed through a lot of contact and constant practice in language communication. You can't learn words by memorizing grammar rules. With the help of multimedia courseware

Teaching can easily display emotional materials, reproduce things that students have never seen on the screen through pictures, and fully create a vivid and vivid teaching environment. It can also truly show students various teaching scenes, which are intuitive and vivid, which helps students to imitate and understand the English they have learned correctly, and also helps to cultivate students' awareness and ability to think and express directly in English language, thus laying the foundation for real language communication. It is also conducive to highlighting key and difficult points and showing students a more intuitive learning platform. By using multimedia technology, key words, phrases, sentence patterns and grammar are explained with pictures and texts, which is convenient for understanding and memorizing. With appropriate sound effects such as "applause" and "explosion", language, images and sounds can act on students' various senses at the same time, thus strengthening students' attention and memory of key and difficult points and consolidating their knowledge. 3. Expand the classroom capacity and cultivate cross-cultural awareness.

Language has rich cultural connotations. In English teaching, infiltrating the cultural awareness of English-speaking countries such as history, geography, customs and lifestyles is conducive to the understanding and application of English and the cultivation of cross-cultural awareness. Therefore, how to provide students with a lot of cultural background knowledge has become a difficult problem for teachers in English teaching. However, there is a lot of information in the educational websites on the Internet, which solves the difficulties of English teachers.

For example, in Unit 7, Section 3A, Book 1, Grade 9, no one has been to Paris, so I can't appreciate the charm of Paris, so I will find some beautiful pictures about Paris in the courseware, such as the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame de Paris, and I will also introduce some red wine, cultural customs and fashion shows about Paris.

So, how to use a lot of media properly in English class? 1. Pay attention to the dominant position of teachers and students and avoid putting the cart before the horse. English Curriculum Standards emphasizes the humanity of English teaching, the educational concept of "people-oriented" and the human factor in teaching activities. People-oriented means putting students in a fundamental and important position, fundamentally establishing a student-centered position, and taking students as active and creative language users, rather than passive recipients. The process of English classroom teaching is actually. Although multimedia-assisted teaching has many advantages, in English class, teachers have many irreplaceable functions of computers. "The natural language between people is the friendliest and most flexible language, and the interaction between teachers and students in the classroom should be the most effective way of teaching and learning." For example: "free talk" at the beginning of English class, students on duty.

Daily report or oral communication between teachers and students is a good way to cultivate students' listening and speaking ability, which is irreplaceable by computers. If we blindly pursue the display of multimedia teaching courseware in class, then we will turn what teachers should say into multimedia demonstrations; Turn the emotional communication between teachers and students into a cold man-machine conversation in a specific situation. Therefore, we must clearly realize that English is a practical language subject, and only through a large number of English exchanges between teachers and students can we cultivate students' communicative competence in English. Computer multimedia is just one of the tools to assist teachers in teaching. Although it is the most advanced modern teaching tool, it can only serve teaching and cannot completely replace teachers' teaching activities in the classroom. Otherwise, the English classroom will become a cinema, where students watch and listen more, but only remember the plot and ignore the teaching knowledge. Multimedia is used to show some texts or dialogue materials, only to show students the scenes and audio language in the text, but it can't replace students' communicative practice in English in the situations created by teachers, let alone their thinking training. Therefore, modern English teaching should follow the teaching mode of "teacher-oriented and student-centered". Give full play to students' subjectivity in classroom teaching.

2. Timely and appropriate multimedia to avoid turning English classes into multimedia courseware demonstration classes.

The media has always been in a dominant position. It is an auxiliary facility for teachers' teaching activities. We are for teaching, not for teaching. Whether to use computer multimedia or not, and in which link, depends on the needs of English classroom teaching. In order to reflect the modernization of teaching methods, some teachers use computer multimedia as much as possible in a class. Even mistakenly believe that the more multimedia is used, the higher the student participation rate, the easier it is for students to master the language materials taught, and the higher the efficiency. In the continuous teaching practice, it is not difficult to find that deliberately pursuing modernization and overusing multimedia will turn English classes into multimedia courseware demonstration classes, and teachers will become "projectionists", overusing video technology, audio technology and even network technology, and paying too much attention to animation, color and sound effects of courseware. As a result, the original concise content is flashy and complicated, which makes students confused and at a loss, and the classroom effect is relatively poor. Although students seem to be interested, in fact, students inadvertently pay too much attention in this kind of class, and the interference of non-verbal teaching information is too great, which leads to poor learning effect. Therefore, I think that multimedia can only play its positive role if it is properly used according to different teaching contents and teaching links. For example, in the presentation of English classroom stories, multimedia can be used relatively more, and other links can be used less.

Or not. For example, oral communication between teachers and students five minutes before class is a good way for students to listen and speak, and multimedia is irreplaceable. Of course, teachers should make students understand the purpose of listening or watching, make psychological preparations, adjust their attention, pay attention to timely feedback and correction, and properly play the leading role of teachers and the auxiliary role of multimedia.

3. Design the courseware in a targeted way to avoid attaching importance to multimedia and ignoring conventional teaching media and means.

In English teaching, we require students to give full play to their learning potential, form effective learning strategies and improve their autonomous learning ability through active learning methods such as observation, experience and inquiry. In English classroom teaching, the role of computer multimedia-assisted teaching means is irreplaceable by many traditional teaching media. So some people just throw away traditional things, whether they are essence or dross. Teaching moves towards the acme of modern educational technology. In fact, in English class, teachers can't always stand by and watch computers and students stare at the screen. We need eye contact between teachers and students. Teachers and students can't both be slaves of computers and be led by the nose. We should give full play to students' enthusiasm, initiative and creativity. Teachers' unique teaching art and teaching methods cannot be completely contained. We need a unique English teacher with special charm. Therefore, although computer multimedia has incomparable advantages over other media, it cannot completely replace many unique functions of other media and teaching methods, such as objects, stick figures, experiments, performances, situational dialogue training, etc., which cannot be ignored in classroom teaching. Computer multimedia cannot replace all other teaching media. Only by combining the two can we learn from each other's strong points and give full play to teaching efficiency. Therefore, teachers should not blindly follow the trend, but should choose appropriate media and means according to teaching needs, rationally use multimedia and conventional media and means, and give full play to their respective advantages. According to the reality of students and teaching content, it is our unchangeable principle to choose the appropriate media form.

In a word, it is our historical task to explore and create English learning environment and teaching mode in the information age. In the new English curriculum standards promulgated by the State Education Commission, it is clearly stated that teachers should make full use of computers and multimedia teaching software, explore new teaching modes, enrich teaching contents and forms, and improve classroom teaching effect. Therefore, we English teachers should take the ability to use modern educational technology as an important content to improve their professional quality, and practice in class, make full use of the advantages of multimedia and optimize the English learning environment, so as to achieve the effect of comprehensively improving teaching efficiency and promoting students' all-round development. In a word, there is no doubt about the advantages of introducing multimedia-assisted teaching into the classroom, but we should allocate it reasonably and make up for the shortcomings of conventional teaching with its advantages, so as to achieve the ultimate goal of optimizing the classroom.

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