The new media as alternative: Multimedia in German instruction
The new media are surely not strange to the students. They play computer games together and hear music and lecture in a tape recorder or a CD Player. They use the internet for their personal researches and orders. But in instruction? The technological developments open new perspective for german instruction. The new media offer a multiplicity of possibilities for a modern and effective instruction. Multimedia, television, radio make the entrance to the foreign language german for the learner possible over different channels. “Multimedia German” is an innovative learning offer, which connects different medial components and establishes new ways of media-aided learning. The multimedia teaching program runs with support of CD-ROM, DVD, video tape and grants exciting views of the german everyday life reality. The course offers regional and cultural informations as well as words and idioms, grammar, sentence structure to the learner beside course contents. The learner can learn and use not only simple sentences and everyday expressions, but also understand the german culture. The multimedia language course as blended learning offer is a teaching program with different components: Multimedia. course with CD-ROM, video and DVD, course with various materials, radio course with cassette tapes. With assistance of the learning program we can teach and learn german language and culture. Besides, we can extend and deepen already-existing knowledge about a lot of different subjects.