Developing Interactive Multimedia Software for English Learning

Abstract

This paper describes a project aimed to develop interactive
multimedia software which is pedagogically attractive and appropriate
for Year 2 students of Elementary School to learn English. The software
was developed using Macromedia Flash Professional 8. It presented one
common theme: Animals. The learning activities provided in the software
were carefully designed to help the students develop the four main skills
for language acquisition – listening, speaking, reading, and writing – in
an integrated way. To gain an optimal product, an evaluation by experts
was conducted and the result of this evaluation was used as the basis for
revising the software. In addition, a series of tryout by target users were
conducted phase by phase. After each phase of the tryout was completed,
the software was revised by addressing the results of the tryout to
improve its quality. Based on the result of the final tryout, it can be
concluded that the developed interactive multimedia software is
pedagogically quite attractive and appropriate to help Year 2 students of
elementary school learn English

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