The purpose of this study is to analyze the English Textbook CD-ROM for middle school 3, and to suggest the effective use of it in language teaching. Due to both the 7th School Curriculum of Korea introduced in 2001 and the project ‘Comprehensive Pl...
The purpose of this study is to analyze the English Textbook CD-ROM for middle school 3, and to suggest the effective use of it in language teaching. Due to both the 7th School Curriculum of Korea introduced in 2001 and the project ‘Comprehensive Plans for Education-Computerization’ completed in 2000 by the Ministry of Education, classroom environments have changed a lot. New textbooks and textbook CD-ROMs are being used and multimedia instruments. As a consequence, many teachers are more interested in using multimedia like CD-ROM titles in the language classroom. CD-ROMs bring a lot of advantages such as interactivity, individualization, motivation and interests, and abundant resources e.g. sounds, moving pictures, and animations. These advantages are very effective in language learning.
To conduct this study, five CD-ROMs used in Cheongju are selected. To evaluate the five CD-ROMs, the analysis consisted of the following 3 sets of criteria: four language functions of the learning activities, the types of group-works and learning materials, multimedia functions using learning activities.
The results of the study are as follows.
First, to the set of first criteria, four language functions of the learning activities in all CD-ROMs were generally acceptable. but the Middle School English Ⅲ turned out to be not satisfied with this section, all CD-ROMs were constructed with similar language functions. So integrative language functions were required to keep the student’s improvement in all CD-ROMs. It might be improved more in terms of integrative language functions based on the learning activities. And Up-coming CD-ROMs would better to contain abundant learning materials for various learning capabilities among students.
Second, the multimedia functions in learning activities weren't various types of CD-ROMs. When developing new CD-ROM, the multimedia functions in learning activities should be concerned in more various types to activate learner's interest and motivation.
And then, based on the result of this study, the better English Textbook CD-ROM should be developed and improved.