Develop and Evaluate the Effects of Multimodal Presentation System on Elementary Student Learning Effectiveness: Within Classroom English Learning Activity

This study is to develop a multimodal presentation software integrated with interactive whiteboard (IWB) as a multimodal presentation system (MPS) to support the classroom English learning in the elementary English as second language (ESL) course. It focuses primarily on techniques and tools to enhance the students’ ESL learning achievement and learning satisfaction in the classroom setting. This paper utilizes the MPS, based on Mayer's cognitive theory of multimedia learning (CTML), to present the multimedia instructional materials in auditory and visual modalities. An experimental research designed was conducted. The results revealed that there were statistically significant differences between the students in experimental group and control group on measures of learning effectiveness (i.e., academic achievement and learning satisfaction).