EFL IT learning tasks in my university

In my home university (Sichuan International Studies University), although a lot of lessons are conducted in the multimedia classroom, mostly it’s due to the shortage of classrooms with the expansion of enrolment. Most lessons are no different from the traditional ones in the teaching mode except the location of lectures. Only a few courses are conducted integrating IT-related tasks, but such tasks are still quite restricted and closed: the teacher of Advanced English simply turns to the electronic resources in the form of CD-ROM devised by the textbook publishers; the teacher of translation simply takes advantage of the convenience brought about by the intranet to display students’ version and an authoritative version. Teachers are quite in control, pausing for his or her convenience during the class presentation through the show of the PPT slides to highlight some instantly-presentable information, thus saving time in writing with chalk. In addition, some utilitarian students under heavy pressure from exams and job-seeking at certain stages seek more practice corresponding to the question types in the test to come, denying the access to some time-consuming IT-related tasks. It can be seen that mostly the use of the multi-media classrooms is for its own sake to expose students to the computer screen instead of the traditional blackboard. With the shortage of capital due to the university status of being only municipality-owned, the teachers’ lack of proficiency at computer skills, as well as the consideration of students’ factual needs, the really liberated and free tasks are hard to be incorporated in teaching in my teaching context.