Abstract

In recent years, personal computers have been coming into use in many aspects of life in the world. Today we are said to be in the multimedia age. But I think we have been bringing the new technology of multimedia into education without clarifying the notion of multimedia. Moreover, we have been confusing the characteristics, advantages and disadvantages of multimedia itself with those of the means of multimedia, for example the Internet. This paper discusses the difference between them and how we should adopt the notion of multimedia to language education, especially to ESP.