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- 1What is "materials development"?it refers to all the processes that made use of by practitioners who produce and/or use materials for language learning, including materials evaluation, their adaptation, design, production, exploitation and research.
- 2Which is the focus of the literature on materials development?Now it focuses less on ways of selecting materials and more on the application of theory to practice and practice to theory.
- 3Which methods are better to use in order to evaluate materials?1. Reviews
2. feedback
3. questionnaires
4. expert panels
5. editioral visits
6. classroom observations
- 4What is a good teacher?A good teacher is always adapting the materials he/she is using to the contetx in which they are using them in order to achieve the optimal congrence between material, methodology, learners, objectives, etc.
- 5Which are the four principles for developing materials proposed by Tomlinson?•the language experience needs to be contextualised
• the learner needs to be engaged
• the language and discourse features need to be meaningful
• the learner needs to achieve deep processing of the language
- 6How are the teachers' attitudes towards materials affecting their usage ?Some teachers use their coursebook depending on their experience and their view of the coursebook's value in their teaching context.
- 7Why are necessary textbooks?they are necessary to save time and money
they provide everything in one source.
- 8What can provide authentic materials ?They provide meaningful exposure to language
They motivate learners
they help them to develop a range of communicative competencies
They enhance positive attitudes towards the learning of a language
- 9Why is important to humanize materials?Because it helps learners to personalize, localise and make meaningful their experience of the target language, as well as the need for materials to be affectively engaging and cater for all learing style preferences.
- 10Which are the benefits of electronic materials?They facilitate reading by making hidden informaation available
They are easy to access
They localised adaptation of materials
They are collabrative with problem solving activities in and out side the classroom.
- 11To concludeA good teacher has to be always taking into account the students' needs in order to develop a better way of learning for them, and a tool to reach this goal is through materials, especifically authentic materials so as to take into account the context.
