Everything in the world changes every day. Some of these changes are big and some others are not, but what is important is that those changes affect people in a certain way. We can see how things that were pretty useful have been replaced by new technological devices and all those actions that seemed to be impossible are now easy to do thanks to internet and some other tools. It is not possible to think that those changes cannot affect or transform teaching, specially language teaching. All these technological advances have improved the teaching of English as a second language.
Before starting to describe the influence of multimedia in ESL education, there is a term that need to be defined:
Multimedia is a term used to express that different forms of media 
work together as a single one. In the list of these multiple kinds of media, there are some that are really important to highlight: text, audio, animation, video and graphs. Text could be considered as one of the most important elements in multimedia because although there are some things that can be described using images even audio, text is always able to introduce the information in a concise way. So, It is not necessary to replace text by images or video; the use of text is excellent.
work together as a single one. In the list of these multiple kinds of media, there are some that are really important to highlight: text, audio, animation, video and graphs. Text could be considered as one of the most important elements in multimedia because although there are some things that can be described using images even audio, text is always able to introduce the information in a concise way. So, It is not necessary to replace text by images or video; the use of text is excellent.For years, ESL teaching have included the use of media to succeed. Text and audio were used in isolation and later on there were integrated getting excellent results. Nowadays, Multimedia have taken the best of each media creating a more complete tool that may be used in different ways, most of them help people; this , of course, can be used in benefit of English and students of English as a second Language. So, the process of learning is not limited because students are able to make the process of language adquisition as natural as they want it to be because, as it was mentioned before, multimedia includes text, images, video and some other relevant elements working at the same time to get the same. This is also an excellent point for teachers because they can take advange of this situation to create a context to promote the learning. On the other hand, teachers are not that necessary in this process of learning because the learners of English as a second language are exposed to the language and Multimedia is just another strategy to make them the best; in this case, a teacher should be there acting as a monitor not as a director of the process.
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Excellent!! Great information. Easy to understand. You sticked to your topic. Good job, the best I´ve read so far.
ResponderEliminarIn my opinion, teachers are important to guide you, to help you on what and how you choose tech tools for teaching and learning. Not everything tou see in the net is good and or useful. There are certain principles, rules, recommendations to help students evaluate their needs and to look and evaluate what people on the net offers to you as the solution to your needs or problemas.
Once more, I congratulate you!
I agree with profa. lili I think that you are focused in what you think about ESL education and Multimedia. Nowadays, teachers have to be engaged with new technology to learn and to teach in an effective way, of course, always thinking about what students need to be able to use another language, and how much web resources we can introduce in a language classroom.
ResponderEliminarI agree with all of you! The information is very easy to understand and also very useful for ESL teachers (like us. Nice job!
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