Flashcards related to materials develpment and materials design
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Created by Educación CB
about 8 years ago
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MATERIALS
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Cultural artifacts
Materials are:
• used inside a classroom
• produced outside the classroom
The "success" of materials design is determined by:
a Human Action
ELT Materials:
socio-historical context
[1950-1960]
○ Pattern-practice drills
○ Atomised samples of language
○ Language laboratories
[1960-1970]
○ Humanistic methodologies
[1970-1980]
○ Special purposes and goals
○ Linguistic wants and needs
○ Control of their own learning
♦McDonaldization:
Work routines
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Language scripts for interaction
♦Neo-Liberalism:
'The marker'
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Regulates supply, sets prices, regulates distribution (determiner of all)
We need to start in language teaching, by resisting the manner in which uniformity is being imposed, and by wrestling back curriculum decisions into the hands of those directly involved (teachers and learners).
