Multimedia learning. This is the next innovative method. It is the combination of various media types as text, audio and video materials by the help of which teacher presents information to the learners. By using information technology as an innovative teaching and learning strategy in a problem based learning teacher tries to motivate learners to active knowledge through real life problems.
Advantages of using multimedia learning:
- Improves interest and motivation
- Various multimedia tools help the learners better understand the teaching material
- Teaching process oriented on the life situations
- Positively influence on forming speech habits and skills.
Pre-communication methods. The way towards communicative teaching has been a long and controversial one with advances and set backs. Thefocus of attention has gradually shifted from thelanguage as a systematic code to the language as a means of communicationwith the search for an effective method of instruction and consideration of the learner's personality. Grammar translationmethod included detailed analysis of grammar rules, translating sentences and texts into and out of the target language, memorizing rules and manipulating morphology and syntax, reading and writing.
Direct method encouraged the use of foreign language in the classroom. Classroom teaching was conducted in the target language only. The learning process was mostly based on imitation and memorization.
Oral approach or situational language teaching was based on selection and organization of the "situations". "Situations" were organized with the use of concrete things and pictures. They were used to introduce the new grammar structures.
Audio-lingual method applied the principles of structural linguistics to language teaching. Pattern practice became a basic classroom technique. Audio-lingual method was the combination of structural linguistic theory and fundamentals of behaviorism (stimulus, response, reinforcement).
