(Pedagogical Sciences)

Multimedia technology as one of the means of mastering a foreign language.

Toryanik L.A., Karasyova Ye. V.

National University of Pharmacy (Ukraine)

Today, the goal of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine is, first, to prepare young professionals able to represent their country in the European academic and scientific spheres, second, to create conditions for learning English as a language of international academic communication.

The implementation of this task requires the introduction of new teaching methods, new forms of organization of self-assistant students’ work, new approaches. One of them is the usage of multimedia technologies that facilitate the efficient absorption of linguistic material on different levels of education.

The task of the article is to reveal the ways of using multimedia technology while teaching a foreign language.

The analyses of studied materials [1,3,5,6] showed that multimedia learning technologies represent a set of technical and didactic learning tools that enable the presentation of educational information in text, graphics, audio, video, animation and other formats. There are many ways to use multimedia technologies which are represented by such means as: presentation, electronic books, electronic interactive whiteboards, email, and other video-methods.

A special role during the thematic sessions devoted to the professional events is the use of multimedia presentations created using PowerPoint (using text information, graphics, animation, audio and video). Multimedia presentations cover all types of speech activity of students (writing, reading, speaking, listening and translation) and, thus, create a "virtual reality" both in domestic and in the professional spheres.

Multimedia presentations can be used at various stages of students’ work. At the stage of explanation of new material, for example, it is required maximum visual aids and schematized educational material to help students quickly understand grammatical phenomena.

Multimedia presentations are successfully used instead of many tables, charts and images for productive, effective, and fruitful work. At the stage of verification and consolidation of knowledge using multimedia can carry out oral and written surveys, testing, give tasks for self and others. Creating high-quality multimedia presentations to certain themes is an interesting individual or group project task which encourages students to study foreign languages.

Actually holding classes in a foreign language such as audio-visual format facilitates more effective learning lexical units, acquiring skills monologue and dialogue speech, the formation and working of grammatical skills.

Along with educational computer programs in modern teaching practice electronic textbooks are widely used. They have many advantage, such as: availability of interactive communication with various educational resources (electronic libraries, dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc.); information saturation; constant updating of information material. There is a great number of teaching methods, such as: the possibility of individualization of learning, an effective learning; mobility; availability of receiving electronic manuals via the Internet, etc. Electronic books provide self-control of material, feedback and marked by ease of use.

E-mail gives students a chance to support the knowledge of a foreign language with the help of native speakers, it encourages to dialogue with them. In addition, e-mail is one of the auxiliary control methods and adjustments to foreign students as they have an opportunity to clarify information or to resolve issues that have arisen in extracurricular time. It will help them to prepare for classes better.

Video-method gives a great possibility of presenting information, as its main advantage is visibility of information that is more accessible to perception, easily and quickly understood. Using video promotes the development of various aspects of mental activity of students and, above all, attention and memory. Using various channels the flow of information (visual, auditory, motor perception) has a positive effect on the strength of fixation of new vocabulary. Another advantage is the power of video impressions and emotional impact that creates a personal relation to what students have seen.

Thus, the use of multimedia technology in the study of foreign language promotes the development of skills in reading, listening, oral and written expression. Multimedia technologies help to understand the main ideas of complex texts. They develop the ability to communicate in English fluently and directly, as well as the ability to make clear, detailed message to a wide range of issues and give an opportunity to present different views on the basic problem. Multimedia technologies make work of students active, improve and diversify the activities of teacher performance, increase student’s learning.

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