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All colleges and universities should make full use of multimedia and network technology, adopting the new teaching model and improve the mode single. "The modern education technology and college English teaching has been mentioned the combination of college English teaching reform agenda, and PPT courseware and application has become one of the required subjects of college English teachers. This article will focus on how to use PPT courseware for teaching and the advantages and disadvantages of PPT.

This is the traditional teaching measure:

The effective measure to increasing classroom teaching

Compared with the traditional single college English class which regards the blackboard and the teacher as the main body, using PPT courseware for teaching has several advantages, as follows:

1. Increase classroom capacity. PPT courseware interface is rich and lively, it can in an instant make the voice, images and text editor get together, compared with the traditional teaching mode, and increase the volume of class, for learner’s knowledge memory.

2. The systematization of teaching content. PPT courseware in content to present more systematic and the direct, not only can greatly reduce the class time of teacher, but also helps students understanding and mastering of knowledge.

3. Flexibly adjusting teaching contents. The teacher can flexibly add and reduce the teaching content, especially in heard class teaching, it can provide examples and image, also provide students with the imitation object, and can promote them to quickly find concerns to make conversation practice, improve the teaching quality.

This is the modern teaching measure

When using PPT courseware for teaching, the teacher should pay attention to the correct method of teaching. First, the teacher should pay attention to the "interactive" of the English teaching, should not regard the showing information as the teaching purpose, and should develop the students' communicative ability as the ultimate goal. Second, the teacher in the classroom should pay attention to language teaching "humanism", and stimulate students' learning motivation. If teachers can use audio courseware PPT show famous speech, wonderful movie dialogue, catchy English poem, thought-provoking writer interviews, let the students to increase the perceptual knowledge, English and appreciate the cultures of the elegant demeanor, enhance their learning in the hair power. Finally, the teacher should be relying on the PPT teaching to play a directive role, in order to cultivate the students' self-learning ability. Such as teaching students how to write news reports articles, the teacher can first show a news structure through the PPT courseware system, analysis the characteristics of news English writing, and then divided the student into groups, in some business fields, most business use PowerPoint for their promotion presentation with converting PowerPoint to video. That’s also an innovative method.  In this way, students cultivate the independent learning and cooperative learning ability through teacher's guidance.

The teacher should not be player of the PPT

In a sense, PPT courseware is artificially deified, so that part of the teachers thinks if there is no PPT, there would be no teaching new technology". To please the students, teachers design the fancy graphics and complex in courseware design, but the smile of the animation students is the physiology reaction of visual stimuli, and not the spark of communication between teachers and students wisdom. Teachers’ discourse right is largely graphic simple subversion of the stimulus; the role of teacher also fell to be "moments" slide. So, how teachers in teaching and correct play the function of the courseware PPT? The author thinks that:

Teachers should grasp the opportunity to use PPT courseware. The advantage of PPT courseware is that in a short time providing a mass audience of multimedia information in a  direct methods, Therefore, the teacher should mainly used in classroom teaching and the introduction of the present stage, through the voice, vision form to inspire students' interest, realize the needed knowledge to prepare. The characteristics of English teaching require a lot of language interaction between teachers and students in classroom teaching, so the central link, the application of the PPT should be pushed auxiliary status; Instead, teachers should use their own language advantage and personality, and form the real ideas with students.

Finally, the teacher should combine PPT courseware with other modern education measures, such as  PowerPoint to DVD converter to form the real teaching advantage.