Using Multimedia to Motivate Students in EFL Classrooms: A Case Study of English Master’s Students at Jijel University, Algeria

With the development of technology and the boom of digital revolution, foreign-language teachers should think about effective new ways to create better foreign-language teaching or learning milieus that are supported by multimedia technologies. It is widely agreed that language instruction that integrates technology has had a tremendous impact on the language learning process. Moreover, learners are expected to be more motivated in a web-based computer-assisted language learning (CALL) programme and to improve their competencies. As a result, CALL has become increasingly popular in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teaching. This study focuses on how multimedia can play an important role in motivating EFL students. For this purpose, a questionnaire was administered to a group of Master’s degree students at Med Seddik Benyahia University, Algeria, in June 2012. It was found that the availability of multimedia was a dynamic and challenging motivating factor in EFL classrooms, leading to certain suggestions focusing on the achievement of learning objectives.