现代教育技术是整个外语教育改革的制高点和突破口。面对现代教育信息技术 ,外语教学必需从六个方面改革。如果缺乏对现代教育技术是外语教学改革制高点的认识 ,是不可能迎来 2 1世纪外语教学的模式的改革。按照多媒体技术在外语教学中的运用 ,作者认为可以分为三种教学模式和三个主要的发展趋势 ,并就多媒体辅助外语教学的现状提出了富有建设性的思考 Modern educational technology is the culmination and breakthrough of the entire foreign language education reform. In the face of modern educational information technology, foreign language teaching must be reformed from six aspects. Without the recognition that modern educational technology is the commanding point of foreign language teaching reform, it is impossible to usher in the reform of the model of foreign language teaching in the 21st century. According to the application of multimedia technology in foreign language teaching, the author thinks that it can be divided into three kinds of teaching modes and three major development trends, and proposes a constructive thinking on the status quo of multimedia assisted foreign language teaching