Materials Design

Flowchart nodes

• Materials Design

• Advantages and disadvantages for teacher produced materials

• Advantages

• Disadvantages

• Contextualization

• Individual Needs

• Personalization

• Timelines

• Organization

• Quality

• Adapting material to take into account their particular learning environment

• Materials can be responsive to the heterogeneity inherent in the classroom

• This materials add a personal touch to teaching that students appreciate

• Materials respond to local and international events and high interest topics and tasks

• May lack overall coherence and clear progression wihtout some overall organising principle

• May seem ragged and unprofessional next to those produced by "professionals"

• Should be contextualized to the curriculum they're intending to adress 

• Guidelines for Designing English Teaching Materiales

• Should encourage learners to develop english skills and strategies

• Should offer opportunities for integrated language use 

• Should link to each other to develop a progression of skills 

• Should allow for a focus on form as well as function

• Should have apropiate instructions

• Should be authentic in terms of the text

• Should stimulate interaction and be generative in terms of language

• Should offer flexibiliy in terms of content, providing a range of possible inputs

• Should be attractive in terms of their "usability"