在新的世纪,计算机和互联网为代表的当代信息技术,正以惊人的速度改变着人们的生存方式和学习方式,知识推陈出新的周期不断缩短。教学必须以更快的速度、更高的效率、最大限度地开发人的学习活力与研究潜能。在迎接挑战中,最有效又最紧迫的对策是:与时共进,转变我们的观念,改革传统的教学模式。一、多媒体在英语教学中的地位和作用在传统教学模式中,教学以教师讲授、使用粉笔加黑板为主的传授方式,学生处在被动学习状态。随着教育改革的 In the new century, modern information technology represented by computers and the Internet is changing people’s ways of living and learning at an alarming rate. As a result, the cycle of updating knowledge has been continuously shortened. Teaching must be faster, more efficient, to maximize the development of human learning vitality and research potential. In meeting the challenges, the most effective and urgent measures are: keep up with the times, change our concepts and reform the traditional teaching mode. First, the status and role of multimedia in English teaching In the traditional teaching model, teaching lectures by teachers, the use of chalk plus blackboard-based teaching methods, students in a passive learning state. With the educational reform