State of the art

Question 1 of 10

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Materials development can be informative and instructional

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True
False

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Question 2 of 10

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Most commercially produced materials focus on:

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Research and guidind
Exploring and research
Informing and exploring
Informing and gudind

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Question 3 of 10

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❌ refers to all the processes made use of by ❌ who produce and/or use materials for ❌, including materials evaluation, their adaptation, ❌, production, ❌ and research. Ideally, all of these ❌ should be given consideration and should interact in the making of language-learning ❌.

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‘Materials development’

practitioners

language learning

design

exploitation

processes

materials

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Question 4 of 10

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( Fenner & Newby (2000), McDonough & Shaw ( 1998, 2003), Grant’s (1987), Dubin & Olshtain’s (1986) ) on approaches to materials design in ( American Coursebooks ), Richards (2001) on curriculum development with frequent reference to materials development, and ( Fenner & Newby (2000), McGra (2002, Tomlinson & Masuhara (2010) ) on materials evaluation and
design, which was probably the first book to not only provide applications of theory to the ( practice of evaluating, practice of produciton ), adapting and supplementing materials but also to make principled suggestions for systematising materials design.

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Question 5 of 10

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Which are the questions for evaluating criteria proposed by Tomlinson & Masuhara (2004: 7)?

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Is each question reliable in the sense that other evaluators would interpret it in the same way?
Is each question a critical question?
Does each question only ask multiple questions?
Is each question free of dogma?
Is each question an evaluation question?

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Question 6 of 10

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on micro-evaluations of materials are of projects or for publishers and are, understandably, confidential. Some of materials in action are dotted throughout the literature but are rarely collected in one volume or issue. This is a point made by , who adds that such micro-evaluations are ‘often seen as too localised and too small scale, and so theoretically uninteresting’.

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Question 7 of 10

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McDonough & Shaw sets a series of useful tasks for the readers to check their understanding of his suggested procedures and their ability to use them. Some of these tasks involve the reader adapting coursebook materials; others involve them in evaluating adaptations suggested by experts.

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True
False

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Question 8 of 10

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In the USA, ❌ published a guide for materials writers and in ❌ were published by ❌ on choosing your coursebook, Graves (1996) on teachers as course developers and Tomlinson (1998a) on the principles and procedures of materials development. The last of these was published as a collection of papers by presenters at ❌ Conferences, events which also stimulated many articles on materials development in various established ❌

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Byrd (1995)

Fenner & Newby (2000)

McGrath (2002)

American Books

England books

Asian books

Tomlinson (2003)

Cunningsworth (1995)

MATSDA

ELT Journal and Modern English Teacher

journals and in Folio.

Books and articles

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Question 9 of 10

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Coursebooks communicate a view of teaching and learning, a view of the target language and the culture(s) they represent and the worldview of their producer.

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True
False

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Question 10 of 10

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Very little of the existing ❌ tells us much about the actual effect of different ❌ on language acquisition and development, nor about how to encourage teachers and learners to try new types of ❌ (although see ❌, about ways in which commercial publishers can achieve face validity whilst introducing. principled ❌ or about approaches which help learners to develop their own ❌.

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literature on materials development

types of materials

materials

Tomlinson 2005)

innovative approaches

learning materials

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Quiz on State of the art, created by Danna Carranza on 04/09/2015.

State of the art

Question 1 of 10

Materials development can be informative and instructional

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 2 of 10

Most commercially produced materials focus on:

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 3 of 10

❌ refers to all the processes made use of by ❌ who produce and/or use materials for ❌, including materials evaluation, their adaptation, ❌, production, ❌ and research. Ideally, all of these ❌ should be given consideration and should interact in the making of language-learning ❌.

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Explanation

Question 4 of 10

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Question 5 of 10

Which are the questions for evaluating criteria proposed by Tomlinson & Masuhara (2004: 7)?

Select one or more of the following:

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Question 6 of 10

Fill the blank spaces to complete the text.

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Question 7 of 10

McDonough & Shaw sets a series of useful tasks for the readers to check their understanding of his suggested procedures and their ability to use them. Some of these tasks involve the reader adapting coursebook materials; others involve them in evaluating adaptations suggested by experts.

Select one of the following:

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Question 8 of 10

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Question 9 of 10

Coursebooks communicate a view of teaching and learning, a view of the target language and the culture(s) they represent and the worldview of their producer.

Select one of the following:

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Question 10 of 10

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