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Research on the Application of Multimedia and Network Technologies in Higher Vocational Public Engli 　　（Hunan Vocational College of Commerce,Changsha, Hunan Province, China 410205） 　　Abstract. To find out an effective way to improve higher vocational college students’ reading abilities, the author designs an experiment that applying the multimedia and network technologies in the higher vocational public English reading teaching to test whether the multimedia teaching mode is more effective than the traditional teaching mode in enhancing vocational college students reading performance. The contrastive experiment is done for one semester and the experiment shows that if applying multimedia and network technologies in higher vocational public English reading teaching, creating authentic language environment, it can improve the classroom efficiency, improve students English reading ability, thus forming the student-centered modern higher vocational public English reading teaching mode. 　　Key words: Multimedia and network technologies; Higher vocational public English reading; Teaching mode 　　English reading is an important means of obtaining information and a convenient way to communicate with each other. Higher vocational students English reading level should be pragmatic,that is, they should be familiar with the English of their own professional field, be able to read general brief practical writing materials, such as letters, technical specification, contract, and can understand them correctly. Todays society is the information age which is represented by multimedia and network technology. With the rapid development of multimedia and network technologies, people begin to explore new development opportunity in teaching domain. Therefore, in January 2004, the Ministry for Higher Education issued College English Curriculum Requirements (Trial Implementation), which put forwards that colleges and universities should make full use of multimedia technology and netw