Based a district of Harbin, Heilongjiang, P.R.China,
and comprehensive analysis on the qualitative data
from the survey, interview and observation journals,
this book studies how multimedia adoption may change
classroom and impact communication in TEFL in
junior middle schools. The study finds that, there
is consent among researchers, educators, administers
and policy makers that multimedia adoption positive
impact on communications between teachers and
students; on the other hand, how, when, and how much
it should be adopted still remains problematic. The
aughor finds that ages, mass teaching load, computer
literacy, and the criteria on which the teachers are
judged play important roles on their perceptions
toward multimedia adoption besides common complains
on hardware and software accessibility and
suitability. The author concludes multimedia
adoption is not an assemblage of machines and their
accompanying software. One should not think of it
and its application in education as a matter of
computer literacy; rather, it evokes social
reflections on how we perceive it, use it, and
assess its effectiveness and value.
and comprehensive analysis on the qualitative data
from the survey, interview and observation journals,
this book studies how multimedia adoption may change
classroom and impact communication in TEFL in
junior middle schools. The study finds that, there
is consent among researchers, educators, administers
and policy makers that multimedia adoption positive
impact on communications between teachers and
students; on the other hand, how, when, and how much
it should be adopted still remains problematic. The
aughor finds that ages, mass teaching load, computer
literacy, and the criteria on which the teachers are
judged play important roles on their perceptions
toward multimedia adoption besides common complains
on hardware and software accessibility and
suitability. The author concludes multimedia
adoption is not an assemblage of machines and their
accompanying software. One should not think of it
and its application in education as a matter of
computer literacy; rather, it evokes social
reflections on how we perceive it, use it, and
assess its effectiveness and value.