1_MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING.

1_MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING.

1. MATERIALS

   • Clasified
     • Exploratory
     • Experimental
     • Informative
     • Eliciting
     • Instructional

2. MATERIALS EVALUATION

   • critearia and evaluation instruments
     • criteria
       • Is each question an evaluation question?
       • Does each question only ask one question?
       • Is each question answerable?
       • Is each question free of dogma?
       • is each question reliable in the sense that other evaluators would interpret in the same way?
     • Tomlinson
       • "Evaluation criteria should be developed before materials are produced"
       • criteria
         • universal
         • local
       • subjective evaluation
     • Byrd
       • Evaluation for selection
       • Analysis for implementation
     • Mc Donough & Shaw
       • Usability
       • Generalisability
       • Adaptability
       • Flexiblity
   • Reporting evaluations
     • Amnrani (2011)
       • Post-publication review will inform
     • Donovan (1998)
       • What is piloted?
       • Who piloted?
       • How?

3. HISTORY

   • 1980
   • 1986
   • 1987
   • 1995
   • 1996
   • 1998
   • Publications
     • 2000
     • 2001
     • 2002
   • 2003
   • 2004
   • 2007
   • 2011

4. MATERIALS ADAPTATION

   • Mc Donough & Shaw
     • Adding
     • Deleting
     • Modifying
     • Simplifying
     • Reordering
   • Mc Brath (2002)
     • Select
     • reject sections
     • Add extensions
     • Replace components
   • Saraceni
     • Involve learners

5. MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS

   • a secondary school textbook project in Bulgaria
   • primary and secondary courses in Romania, Russia, Belarus and Uzbekistan
   • an eight-year secondary school coursebook series in Romania
   • an institution-specific project in Sultan Qaboos University
   • an institution-specific course at Bilkent University
   • a project in humanistic materials in the Democratic Republic of Congo
   • the CBSE-ELT Project
   • a secondary school coursebook in Namibia

6. ISSUES

   • the need for published materials
     • relevance and engagement
     • learner centred approaches
       • problem based approach
       • task based activities
     • conversation-driven instead of maretials-driven
       • textbook free course
         • language in use
         • meaningful communication
       • teacher
         • respect
         • confidence
         • creativity
   • pedagogic approaches
     • long awarness approach
     • PPP approach
     • natural approach
     • multidimensional approach
       • sensory imagery
       • motor imagery
       • inner speech
       • emotion and tought
     • importance of language in use
       • T.P.R
       • task-based
     • communicative approach
   • authenticity of texts and tasks
     • meaningful exposure to language
       • motivation
       • communicative competences
     • language use
       • communication
       • culture
   • humanising materials
     • learning styles
       • spontaneity
       • creativity
     • meaningful experience
       • personalised activitiies
   • aceptability
     • taboo topics
       • racism
       • sexism
     • national projects
     • negotiated syllabus
     • controversial topics
       • facilitate learning
       • affective engagement
   • The value of textbooks
     • Debated since eighties
       • Proponents
         • Saver time
         • Resources
         • Standardise teaching
       • Opponents
         • Cannot cater needs
         • Illusion of system and progress
   • ideology in materials
     • global coursebook
     • consume
     • British coursebook
   • new technologies role
     • access to information
       • CALL materils
       • open to real world
     • benefits
       • colaborative solving problems activities
       • localised adaption of materials
       • organizational
       • pedagogical
       • facilitate reading

7. RESEARCH

   • development and use
     • effect
   • demanding
     • significant implications
     • apply
     • evaluation
   • local research
     • experimental approaches

8. CONCLUSIONS

   • the current situation
     • teachers
       • critical
       • confident
       • personalise coursebooks for the learners
     • 40 years pregress
       • practical undertaking
       • academic field
     • materials
       • facilitate language acquidition
       • effective materials
   • future
     • ellectronically
       • computers
       • smartphones
     • do material by themselves
       • adaptation
     • commercial publishers
       • flexible
       • personalised
       • localised
   • gaps in the literature
     • little existing literature
       • publishers
       • innovative approaches
       • own learning material

9. MATERIALS PRODUCTION

   • How writers write
     • Johnson
     • Prowse
   • Principled development of materials
     • Chandrasegeran, Vekataraman & Poh-Knight
       • Pedagogic framework
     • Hardwood & Richars
       • Language materials
         • Suit the context
     • The language experience
       • Contextualised and comprehensible
     • The learner needs to be
       • Motivated, positive, and engaged
     • Language needs to be
       • Salient and meaningful

10. MATERIALS EXPLOITATION

    • Teachers adapt materials
      • Institutional
      • Classroom requirements
    • Teachers experience
      • Less
        • Rely more heavily on textbooks
      • More
        • Use variety of material resources

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