【正文】 whether the English study of the students can go on smoothly. If the students are interested in learning, they won’t feel that learning is a burden, but be active and absorbed in learning. According to the psychological characteristic of the primary school students, they like to move but not sit quietly. However, the English content and motionless picture can’t arouse students’ interest. In English teaching, using multimedia as assistance can make the content more vividly. The bination of video images, audio, graphics and text can attract students’ attention and interest. Therefore, making full use of multimedia technology can show some new words, stereos, and dialogues, which can make students place themselves in the environment of the language, and experience actual application of English. For example, English vocabulary has been a difficult point for the teachers to teach and for the students to learn. Many students recite the words by rote, but the result is not satisfactory. When teaching the vocabulary, teachers can use the multimedia to present different words by designing and manufacturing pictures, text, sound, and image. The agile and flexible training methods can bring the students’ organs into play, such as eyes, ears, brain, mouth, hands and etc. So that students can get a vivid visual image and impression, produce a strong interest in learning, increase the enthusiasm and motivation of learning vocabulary unconsciously. Primary school students learn things while playing, so teachers can acplish the task of teaching easily and it is easy for students to accept and remember it firmly, too. Enriching classroom contentsMultimedia provides the extremely advantageous physical condition for the foreign language teaching, and provides the brandnew teaching ways for us to overe the traditional teaching’s shortings. It transforms the abstract, arid contents into the visual, interesting, visible contents, which bees the developing tendency of English teaching. It not only raises students39。 understanding about the abstract and its process, thus introduces the classroom teaching a brandnew boundary. The followings are some advantages of the multimedia along with examples in the English teaching. Exciting students’ interest in learningThe Educationalist B the other is that it has great interactivity which paves a way for exploring students’ creativity and imagination. The characteristics of multimediaassisted teaching modeUnder the traditional English teaching mode, English can not be used for munication. Multimedia, as a new technology, can provide text, graphics, audio, video, etc and bine reading, writing, speaking in a single activity. It is a remedy for the defects of traditional English teaching mode. Compared with traditional English teaching mode, multimediaassisted teaching mode has the following obvious characteristics. LearnercenterednessThe relationship between teachers and students is no longer subordinate. The teacher is not regarded as the authority or the model for students to follow any more. The class is planned and organized according to the students’ need. That is what to teach, when to teach and how to teach are made with reference to the students. Students have bee active participants in learning and are encouraged to be explorers and creators of language rather than passive recipients of it. They can actively choose what to learn and learn them in their own way and at their own pace. The role of the teacher is also changed. The teacher is not a director or a dominator but a facilitator who assists the students to develop a natural capacity to municate in English. In other words, the teacher is the organizer, tutor and cooperator. It means that teacher is equal to the students, is one of the members of the class. Comprehensive inputMultimedia, as an advanced educational technology, provides more audiovisualtext information. That is, people can get the information by different senses, such as by sight sense and hearing sense at the same time. Further more, multimedia provides the possibility of creating more authentic language situations, for listening is bined with seeing, just like the real world. Various learning resourcesCompared with the traditional learning resources, which only has textbooks and tape for students to learning English, multimediaassisted teaching can provides textbooks and tapes, videotapes, audio, etc. These things can make the class more interesting and lively. Focusing on language skillsThe traditional English teaching only focuses on reading and writing. But the teaching which uses multimedia as assistance focuses on reading, writing, listening and speaking together. This way of teaching is good for students to develop their overall abilities. The advantages of using multimedia as assistance in primary schoolsMultimedia is the latest form of technology, which allows information to be relayed by two or more media in a multitextural environment using texts, graphics, sound, animation and video, capable of producing an output that appeals to the different senses. The output provides a rich and fascinating learning environment which is much needed in lowmotivating language classes to make learning more attractive and effective. This is because multimedia is able to create and manipulate creatively the separate multiple media of video, audio, texts, and graphics into a single, unified and putercontrolled entity. Multimedia additionally provides a further and more powerful dimension to munication when the control and manipulation of this meaningful information is passed into the hands of the learner. The ability to interact with these munication elements via interactive multimedia allows language learners to explore, discover, ponder, search, question, answer and receive feedback.The multimedia technology is hightech method to administer the teaching. It is necessary to utilize this new method in Engli