AcknowledgementI am extremely grateful for the encouragement and support lent to me in the production of my paper by instructors. Without the help, I can not finish my paper so smoothly. 内容摘要此论文是基于作者个人的观点而创作的，现在关于多媒体教学的利与弊的争端很激烈。鉴于在英美文学多媒体教学中的一些感悟和观点，作者将教学中的问题列出来以得到广泛的重视：学生的兴趣淡化，教师的角色改变，课堂容量过大，教学活动仅限于教室。影响学生的创造性思维。之所以提出这些问题是为了更深层的研讨。除了这些表层的问题，还有一些潜在的问题等待我们更多的讨论。作者认为他们将会有满意的答复，同时作者这些对策也是相当有益的：调整学生兴趣，提高教学质量，控制课堂教学量，扩展课堂教学，多媒体与教材的有机结合，发散性思维，而这些策略的有效性只有通过教学活动得到验证。关键字： 多媒体 课件 教材 策略AbstractNowadays, the debate on the merits and demerits of the multimedia teaching was sharp. This paper emphasizes on the multimedia in “English and American Literature” teaching. Based on the authors own experience and perspective, the problems in the “English and American Literature” teaching are listed for the purpose of comprehensive attention. Although with the help of multimedia the teachers primitive role is changing, the students interest in multimedia is fading bit by bit. The students can not accept so much information in the limited time. Multimedia confines the teaching activity only to the class. It also confines the students creative thinking. The problems are presented to initiate further discussion. Besides the visible problems, some hidden problems are waiting for more studies. The author thinks they will be well advised. The students will benefit from the new tactics towards solving the existing problems, including transfer the students interest, efficiency of teaching, controlling of the volume, extension of the course, combination of the textbook and the multimedia and the diversified thinking pattern. The effectiveness of the strategies can be obtained by practical experiments.Key words： multimedia courseware textbook tacticsContents1. Introduction -012. The findings from two researches -023. The existing problems in multimedia teaching3.1 The students lose interest bit by bit -033.2 The teacher becomes the projector -043.3 Large information capacity and fast pace are hard for the students to digest -053.4 Multimedia is a teaching activity confined only to class teaching -073.5 Restriction on creative thinking -084Tactics to solve the problems 4.1 The transfer of students interest -08 4.2 The efficiency of teaching -094.3 Controlling the capacity -124.4 Extension of course -134.5 Diversified thinking pattern - 13 5. Conclusions -14The Problems and the Tactics of Multimedia inEnglish and American Literature Teaching1. IntroductionMultimedia teaching in English and American literature is going through rapid development and improvement. Meanwhile, more and more experts have realized some potentials and existing problems.Multimedia is the combination of text, animated graphics video and sound. It steps into the higher education completely. For “English and American Literature”, multimedia presents new opportunities and challenges. The problems existing in the English and American literature has become obvious, so there is the necessity for the discussion of this topic. Multimedia teaching in “English and American Literature” distinguishes itself a lot from the traditional teaching pattern, blackboard-chalk. It seems that the refinement of our ideas towards teaching benefit us a lot. According to Interactive Multimedia in University Teaching and Learning written by Chris Trevitt, a professor from the Australian National University, we should bear closer consideration from the point of view of the changing nature of the teacher and the students relation in the multimedia teaching. 2 The findings from two researchesMultimedia teaching in English and American literature is going through rapid development and improvement. Meanwhile, more and more experts have realized some potentials and existing problems.Before further analysis, a research by Nanjing Education Web will be presented below, from which we can see some vital changes of satisfaction towards multimedia teaching. Time: 2001 Objects: 103 studentsContent:1 Do you like multimedia? Like 96.1% Dislike 3.9%2 Do you fell comfortable with the multimedia?Yes 85.4% N