Editing Multimedia (section)

=== Language communication ===
With the spread and development of the English language around the world, multimedia has become an important way of communicating between different people and cultures. Multimedia technology creates a platform where language can be taught. The traditional form of teaching English as a Second Language in classrooms has drastically changed with the prevalence of technology, making it easier for students to obtain language learning skills. Multimedia motivates students to learn more languages through audio, visual, and animation support. It also helps create English contexts since an important aspect of learning a language is developing their grammar, vocabulary, and knowledge of pragmatics and genres. In addition, cultural connections in terms of forms, contexts, meanings, and ideologies have to be constructed.{{cn|date=January 2021}} By improving thought patterns, multimedia develops students' [[communicative competence]] by improving their capacity to understand the language.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pun |first1=Min |title=The Use of Multimedia Technology in English Language Teaching: A Global Perspective |journal=Crossing the Border: International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies |date=23 May 2014 |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=29–38 |doi=10.3126/ctbijis.v1i1.10466 |doi-access=free }}</ref> One of the studies, carried out by Izquierdo, Simard and Pulido, presented the correlation between "Multimedia Instruction (MI) and learners' second language (L2)"<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Izquierdo |first1=Jesús |last2=Simard |first2=Daphnée |last3=Pulido |first3=María Guadalupe Garza |title=Multimedia Instruction & Language Learning Attitudes: A Study with University Students |journal=Revista Electrónica de Investigación Educativa |date=30 April 2015 |volume=17 |issue=2 |url=https://redie.uabc.mx/redie/article/view/410 }}</ref> and its effects on learning behavior. Their findings, based on [[Howard Gardner|Gardner]]'s theory of the "[[Motivation in second-language learning|socio-educational model]] of learner motivation and attitudes," show that there is easier access to language learning materials as well as increased motivation with MI along with the use of [[computer-assisted language learning]].