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42THE ROLE OF MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGIES IN TEACHING
FOREIGN LANGUAGES Norboeva F.R.
Norboeva Firuza Rakhmatullayevna - Senior Lecturer, DEPARTMENT OF UZBEK AND FOREIGN LANGUAGES, UZBEKISTAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORT, TASHKENT, REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN
Abstract: this article discusses the use of new information technologies in teaching foreign language. It emphasizes that teaching English using information and communication technologies and multimedia is considered as a valuable tool for improving the quality of teaching. The authors also share their own experience in the use of multimedia technologies in foreign language teaching.
Keywords: technology, dramatically, English, effective, hardware, amount.
Under the conditions of globalization and integration which have become necessary elements of our socio-cultural and economic life the educational system of every country, needs to be reconsidered and new ways of teaching techniques are needed to be developed and utilized.
Mainly it refers to foreign language teaching as far as globalization of education and the development of international programs, grants and educational projects make the knowledge of a foreign language a core point for many exchange students and researchers in order to integrate into both local and international society.
Thus, foreign language teachers face the problem how efficiently and productively to teach students foreign languages. The focus of the given paper is the role of multimedia in adult learning, specifically in formal and non-formal education. The article is based on observation of foreign language teachers and researchers' of multimedia in practice in foreign language teaching.
Technology has got so many options as it makes teaching interesting and productive, because it has capability to attract the language learners. Because of these technologies, the tradition of language teaching process has been dramatically changed.
This paper is not going to refuse that old ways of teaching, they have their own place in language learning even though there have multimedia technologies. The main things that teachers should do is combining these both ways together and create more effective teaching methods.
There are a great amount of opportunities for students to gain confidence in learning foreign languages, especially English, who learn for more just full. For them to keep learning languages and to gain more confidence, the world of multimedia technologies are the most productive ones.
In here, multimedia technologies refer to computer -based interactive applications that use both the hardware and software and it allows people to exchange their ideas and information.
Multimedia technologies are considered as a combination of text, graphics, animation, video and sound.
Computer based language learning offers a lot of sources for the learners who want to learn languages by themselves.
Interaction with computers is "fundamentally social and natural".
Furthermore, multimedia programs help learners to correct their pronunciation by listening the native speakers' speech. They are offered to learn how to pronounce words correctly. Besides that following the native speakers' speech and imitating their pronunciation, helps them to speak both correctly and fluently. And also, by using multimedia technologies, learners can be aware of a lot of information connected to target languages' culture, than other textbooks or resources They helps students to be known with cultural backgrounds and real-life language materials, which can attract the students to learning.
By the help learners not only improve their listening ability, but also learn the culture of the target language. Having the abundant information through the use of multimedia technology, the students can be equipped with knowledge about the culture of the target language. It brings about
an information sharing opportunity among students and makes them actively participate in the class activities that help the students to learn the language more quickly and actively.
It is not true to think that by helping multimedia programs, students can only improve their speaking or listening skills, but at the same time both grammar and vocabulary.
There are so many activities belonged to these aspects either. Teaching grammar with the help of multimedia claims to be very useful and progressive, because, using structural models and some action-described pictures are more recognizable and easy to understand than explaining or understanding the whole grammar rules [1, р. 37]. They bring the learners attention not only learning grammar but also they learn how to use what they have already know.
As a conclusion, it is worst to mention that computer technologies and multimedia programs are getting one of the main parts of learning foreign languages. Teachers should provide their students with the most suitable programs, and make students to feel the beauty of the target language as well, students also should avoid of teacher-centered classes and feel themselves as there are not in a boring lesson, but one of the favorable and interesting one. So only helping of the multimedia programs we can reach these goals.
References
1. Blaker J. Technology, Multimedia, and Second Language Learning. Spotlight on the Profession: A Web-Based Forum for Language Researchers and Instructors, 1999.
