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Materials Development
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- 1State of the Art Article Brian Tomlinson 2012Materials for language learning facilates the learning of a target language though coursebooks, videos, graded readers, flashcards, games, websites and movile phone interactions.
- 2Materials can be: Informative Instructional Experiential Eliciting ExploratoryInformative: informing about the target language
Instructional: guiding the learner in practicing the language
- 3Experiential: provides experience of the language in use Eliciting: Encourage to use the language Exploratory: Helps to make discoveries about the languageIn the creation process of Materials development includes:
- Materials evaluation
- Pactitioners' adaptation
- Design
- Production
- Exploration
- Research
- 4Publications on Materials Development MATSDA (materials development association)Madsen & bowen (1978)
Swales (1980)
Dublin & Olshtain (1986)
Fenner and Newby (2000)
Richards (2001)
McGrath (2002)
Tomlinson & Masuhara (2004)
- 5Materials Evaluation: Creation of books, article,s guides and literature in order to help teachers and materials developers develop criteria for evaluating and selecting materials.Tomlinson & Masuhara (2007)
Questions for evaluating criteria in the creation of material:
1) Is each question an evaluation question?
2) Does each question only ask one question?
- 63) Is each question answerable? 4) Is each question free of dogma? 5) Is each question reliable in the sense that other evaluators would interpret it in the same way?Criteria to evaluate material
- 7a) ‘Are there any materials for testing?’ (Cunningsworth 1984) b) ‘Is it attractive? Given the average age of your students, would they enjoy using it?’ (Grant 1987)c) ‘Does the writer use current everyday language, and sentence structures that follow normal
word order?’
(Daoud & Celce-Murcia 1979) - 8d) ‘Are the various stages in a teaching unit (what you would probably call presentation, practice and production) adequately developed?’ (Mariani 1983)e) ‘Is it foolproof (i.e. sufficiently methodical to guide the inexperienced teacher through a
lesson)?
(Dougill 1987) - 9Good teachers are always adapting the materialsTaking into account the context, teachers must addapt the material according to the needs of the students looking for
a congruence between
materials, methodology, learners, objectives, the target language, the teacher’s personality
and teaching style.
- 10Principles for applying theories of language acquisition to materials development (Tomlinson 2008)a) The language experience needs to be contextualised and comprehensible
b) The learner needs to be motivated, relaxed, positive and engaged
- 11c) The language and discourse features available for potential acquisition need to be salient, meaningful and frequently encounteredd) The learner needs to achieve deep and multi-dimensional processing of the language.
- 12Issues in materials development- The value of textbooks
- The need for published materials
- Pedagogic approaches
- Authenticity of texts and tasks
- 13- Acceptability - Humanising materials - Ideology in materials - The roles of new technologies in language-learning materials
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