英文摘要 |
Multimedia assisted language instruction continues to gain increasing attention in the field of teaching Chinese as a second or foreign language (CSL/CFL). In order to create a meaningful learning context that helps language learners develop language proficiency more effectively, it is imperative for language teachers to acquire the knowledge and skills of applying multimedia to instructional design. Unfortunately, many studies related to CSL/CFL multimedia instructional design have not been grounded on solid theories, resulting in unclear direction for designing multimedia materials in teacher training programs. This study applies Mayer's Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning as the research framework to investigate pre-service teachers' competencies of using multimedia in online speaking lessons and determine whether those teachers possess sufficient professional knowledge and skills related to multimedia design. The authors first identified the principles for CSL/CFL based on a literature review, then analyzed pre-service teachers' course materials. Thirty-five pieces of multimedia instructional materials from seven CSL graduate students were collected. The results indicated that most pre-service teachers successfully followed Mayer's multimedia principle and signal principle, but did not follow the temporal contiguity principle, modality principle, coherence principle, and spatial contiguity principle. These results demonstrated that participating pre-service teachers did not consistently follow those principles, and have not fully mastered the knowledge of multimedia assisted language learning. Finally, the authors proposed new teacher training procedures to assist with the development of multimedia instructional design skills. Suggestions for future studies are also provided for continued exploration of effective multimedia assisted instruction in foreign languages. |