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Article
The Effect of Multimedia on Cultural Learning and Teaching in Taiwan
Author(s)
WENG Pei-shi, OU Yi-jie
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DOI:10.17265/1548-6591/2023.04.001
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Taipei University of Marine Technology, Taiwan
ABSTRACT
The application of technology, including films, radio, television, the Internet, and other forms, is increased in various language classrooms. Interest in using multimedia as tools to improve learning is growing in language learners and teachers (Liu, Moore, Graham, & Lee, 2002). Multimedia instruction environment can promote students’ learning motivation and attitude. In addition, culture teaching and learning has been considered as an important interest to language educators and over the past four decades. Thus, the present study is designed to investigate the impact of multimedia on EFL learners’ cultural understanding and raise learners’ learning motivation via different multimedia. Forty Taiwanese college students with pre-intermediate English proficiency level participated in this project. The instructor used a film, Night at the Museum III, to design a series of classroom activities to help learners improve their cultural knowledge. The activities involved film watching, vocabulary learning, artist knowledge searching, on-line resource searching, and feedback. The educator used both qualitative and quantitative methods as the tools. During the classroom activities, the educator provided a learning sheet including new words, phrases, and sentences for students to check. Then, after the film, students searched the scene appearing in the movie, trying to surf on the Internet to search the background of the museum (the British Museum), the famous collections and then share some of their favorite collections to others. Finally, a questionnaire and interview related to learning motivation were used. With multimedia, the writer would like to assist learners to connect cultural awareness and language learning, and improve their motivation in learning English.
KEYWORDS
cultural learning, multimedia, language learning motivation
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