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Materials development for language learning and teaching
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1What does material development mean?
- A‘Materials development’ refers to all processes made for informing their users about language features and on guiding them to practise these features.
- B‘Materials development’ refers to all the processes made use of by practitioners who produce and/or use materials for language learning, including materials evaluation, their adaptation, design, production, exploitation and research.
- A‘Materials development’ refers to all processes made for informing their users about language features and on guiding them to practise these features.
2Material evaluation is a procedure that involves measuring the value (or potential value) of a set of learning materials. It involves making judgements about the effect of the materials on the people using them.”
- ATrue
- BFalse
3Good teachers are always adapting the materials they are using to the context in which they are using them in order to achieve the optimal congruence between materials, methodology, learners, objectives, the target language and the teacher’s personality and teaching style.
- ATrue
- BFalse
4[blank_start]Tomlinson & Masuhara (2004)[blank_end] proposed the following questions for evaluating criteria:
a) Is each question an evaluation question?
b) Does each question only ask one question?
c) Is each question answerable?
d) Is each question free of dogma?
e) Is each question reliable in the sense that other evaluators would interpret it in the same way?
- ABreen & Candlin (1987)
- BCandlin & Breen (1980)
- CTomlinson & Masuhara (2004)
- DDaoud & Celce-Murcia (1979)
5Materials can be; [blank_start]Informative[blank_end]: informing the learner about the target language; [blank_start]Instructional[blank_end]: guiding the learner in practising the language; [blank_start]Experiential[blank_end]: providing the learner with experience of the language in use; [blank_start]Eliciting[blank_end]: encouraging the learner to use the language; [blank_start]Exploratory[blank_end]: helping the learner to make discoveries about the language.
- AInformative
- BInstructional
- CEliciting
- DExperimental
- EExploratory
- FInformative
- GExperimental
- HInstructional
- IExploratory
- JEliciting
- KInformative
- LIstructional
- MEliciting
- NExploratory
- OExperiential
- PExploratory
- QExperiential
- RInformative
- SEliciting
- TIstructional
- UExploratory
- VInformative
- WInstructional
- XExperiential
- YEliciting
6Other writers have offered principled advice on developing evaluation criteria, including [blank_start]Wallace (1998)[blank_end], who suggests twelve‘ criterion areas’ for materials evaluation; [blank_start]Rubdy (2003)[blank_end], who proposes and gives examples of a dynamic model of evaluation in which the three categories of psychological validity, pedagogical validity and process and content validity interact; [blank_start]Tomlinson & Masuhara (2004)[blank_end], with their evaluation procedure for inexperienced teachers and [blank_start]McCullagh (2010)[blank_end], who sets out the procedure she used to evaluate materials for medical practitioners.
- AWallace (1998)
- BRubdy (2003)
- CMcCullagh (2010)
- DRubdy (2003)
- ETomlinson & Masuhara (2004)
- FWallace (1998)
- GTomlinson & Masuhara (2004)
- HMcCullagh (2010)
7[blank_start]Tomlinson (2003)[blank_end], claims that evaluation criteria should be developed before materials are produced, and used to make decisions about the approach, procedures and activities to be adopted as well as to monitor their development and subsequent use.
- ASkierso (1991)
- BTomlinson (2003)
8One problem with the [blank_start]tasks[blank_end] is that they are not situated in a specific learning [blank_start]context[blank_end], even though one of the main objectives of adaptation is to make the [blank_start]materials[blank_end] of more value to the students using them. McDonough et al. (2012) solve this problem by getting the reader to make use of materials they are familiar with and to adapt them to make them more suitable for their own [blank_start]teaching[blank_end] situation.
- Atasks
- Bcontext
- Cmaterials
- Dteaching
9Which of the following is a Principled development of materials?
- AIs each question an evaluation question?
- Bthe language experience needs to be contextualised and comprehensible
- Cproviding the learner with security, system, progress and revision
10Proponents of the coursebook argue that they can disempower both teacher and learners, cannot cater for the needs and wants of their actual and provide only an illusion of system and progress.
- ATrue
- BFalse
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