Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Material Development
- Terms and concepts
- Materials:
anything used
to facilite
learning
- Development:
principles, procedures of
design, implementation,
evaluation of teaching
materials
- Evaluation: attempts
to measure value of
materials
- Language teaching:
anything done to
facilitate learning of
language
- Learning: considered a
conscious process,
consists of committing
to memory of info.
- Vital questions
- How it should be
provided?
- What can be done
with it to promote
language learning?
- Systematic evaluation of materials
- Material writers follow their
intuitions rather than objectives
- intuitions - what is
valuable to learners
- 2nd langauge acquisition
research and material
development
- writers rely on their
intuitions when setting out
to write textbooks
- intuitions useful when
informed by recent
and relevant class
experience
- Materials should
- Achieve impact
- achieved when learners' curiosity,
interest and attention are
attracted
- Help learners feel ease
- lose opportunities for learning
when anxious, uncomfortable
or tense
- Help learners to
develop confidence
- build confidence through
activities which push learners
slightly beyond existing
proficiency
- Require and facilite
learner self-investment
- facilite
self-discovery
- expose the learners to
language in authentic use
- provide learners with
opportunities to use target
language to achieve
communicative purposes
- take into account that the
positive effects of instruction
are usually delayed
- Learners cannot be expected to learn a new
feature and be able to use ir effectively in
the same lesson
- take into account that
learners differ in
learning styles
- Activities should be variable
- take into account
that learners differ
in attitudes
- ideal learners dont exist
- permit
silent
period at
the
beginning
- should not force premature
speaking and not silence either
- maximize learning
potential, stimulate
both right and left
brain activities
- not rely much
on controlled
practice
- what is being taught should be perceived by
learners as relevant and useful
- Learners must be ready
to acquire points being
taught
- Learners' attention should be
drawn to linguistic
- Bringing together of different areas of
knowledge and expertise one of the
objectives of the book