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Multimedia Assisted Case-Based Teaching Application in Intercultural Communication

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Frontier and Future Development of Information Technology in Medicine and Education

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering ((LNEE,volume 269))

Abstract

Human-computer interaction of multimedia technology provides an innovative platform for foreign language education. Assisted by multimedia technology, case-based teaching is widely applied to teaching intercultural communication, a new area in English curriculum system. This pedagogy increasingly arouses great concern for its effectiveness of theory input and students’ criticality development. According to a survey result of 100 sophomores from intercultural communication class in Qingdao Agricultural University, 95 % of them positively approve it helpful and effective in theory explanation; 90 % of them believe it can better stimulate students’ learning motivation. Some teaching practices are also suggested in the paper.

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  1. Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, 266109, China

    Huang Fang & Zhao Chen

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  1. Huang Fang
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  1. Cognitive Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen, People's Republic of China

    Shaozi Li

  2. Human Informatics and Cognitive Sciences, Waseda University Networked Information Systems Lab, Waseda, Japan

    Qun Jin

  3. School of Systems Information Science, Future University Hakodate, Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan

    Xiaohong Jiang

  4. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul University of Science & and Technology (SeoulTech), Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park

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Fang, H., Chen, Z. (2014). Multimedia Assisted Case-Based Teaching Application in Intercultural Communication. In: Li, S., Jin, Q., Jiang, X., Park, J. (eds) Frontier and Future Development of Information Technology in Medicine and Education. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 269. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7618-0_259

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