This paper discusses some of the expected features of multimedia based education and the teaching approach that promote active learning. The possibility of the multimedia-based education can have potential roles in enhancing learning. The particular attention is paid to the audio and visual presentation of the material with the goal of improving comprehension and retention. Certainly multimedia based education in English was developed by many researchers. On the contrary, multimedia based education in German has not been developed. In particular, Fritz Lang`s film <M> will be analyzed in this paper. It is Lang`s first soundfilm, so that the sound and picture have an effective function in the film. Otherwise the film. which was made in the Weimar Republic, presents social anxieties in Germany of the 1930. The paper concludes that multimedia based education in German is not only language but also culture education useful and effective.

These days there is a movement to adapt English as an official language in Korea as well as in ]apan regardless of the danger that our mother tongue Korean or ] apanese could degenerate into a so-called museum language, i.e., dead language. The assertion that globalisation refers to the age of English forces us to consider why and for what we teach and leam the German language. In the age of globalisation, the horizon of multicultural understanding should be broadened. The English-only politics allows us only one world-view or ideology and we will encounter a really monotonous and devastated culture-landscape. In this context, teaching German can contribute to multicultural understanding.