MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING

MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING

1. ‘Materials development’ refers to all the processes made use of by practitioners who produce and/or use materials for language learning,

   • Language Teaching Materials and the (Very) Big Picture
   • Materials development for language learning and teaching Brian Tomlinson Quiz

2. HISTORY

   • IMadsen & Bowen (1978) Swales (1980), Grant’s (1987), Byrd (1995), Richards (2001), (Mukundan 2003, 2006a, 2009a)
     • They´re asserted that the good teacher is constantly adapting materials.

3. MATERIALS EVALUATION

   • The evaluators need to develop their own principled criteria which take into consideration the context of the evaluation and their own beliefs
   • The evaluation criteria should be developed before materials are produced,
   • Any evaluation should start from a specification of the teaching situation,
   • The literature, though, often confuses materials analysis with materials evaluation

4. MATERIALS ADAPTATION

   • it´s provide the learners with an important role in adapting the materials they are using. In order to involve learners in the process
   • important point that good teachers are always adapting the materials they are using to the context in which they are using them in order to achieve the optimal congruence between materials, methodology, learners, objectives, the target language and the teacher’s personality and teaching style
   • Adaptation-friendly: They also stress the need for a criterion-referenced evaluation of materials before making decisions about adaptation.

5. MATERIALS PRODUCTION

   • The influence by principles of language acquisition the importance of thinking as you write y designed in opportunistic ways, instantiated as they wrote, showed learner/context sensitivity and used repertoire a lot.
   • They focus on such language features as chunks, idioms, lexis, grammar, discourse and pragmatics, listenership and response, relational language, and language and creativity
     • Provide practical advice on developing materials, writing instructions, using illustrations and layout and design
   • Language materials cannot only be shaped by research but need to suit the contexts in which they are used.
   • Is important to engagement and motivation from carrying out creative and critical output activities after extensive reading.

6. MATERIALS EXPLOITATION

   • They proposes classroom procedures to help teachers to humanise their coursebooks
   • There is some literature reporting how teachers use their textbooks as resources rather than as scripts
   • Beginning teachers, do not have the confidence to challenge the authority of the coursebook

7. ISSUES IN MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT

   • Negative:: it imposes uniformity of syllabus and approach, and it removes initiative and power from teachers’ . Is difficult for teachers or students to challenge or adapt them. Often ignore the needs and wants of learners, coursebooks are not considered to be sufficiently engaging or relevant for their actual users
   • Possitive: we need textbooks to save time and money and many teachers want a coursebook which provides everything they need in one source. are designed to be flexible and to offer teachers and students opportunities for localisation, personalisation and choice
   • That authentic materials can provide meaningful exposure to language as it is actually used, motivate learners and help them develop a range of communicative competencies and enhance positive attitudes towards the learning of a language.
     • It helped materials developers make use of controversial topics and texts that would be acceptable in their cultures and would have the potential for stimulating affective engagement.
   • We learn best when our imaginations are aroused, Without affective and cognitive engagement there is little possibility of deep processing and therefore little hope of enduring acquisition
   • CALL materials, web sources of language experience, ICT applications. organisational advantages such as easy access,; pedagogical advantages such as authenticity

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