LANGUAGE & MATERIALS

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There is a set of flashcards that summarize two texts proposed, the readings are the following: "State-of-the-Art Article, Materials development for language learning and teaching" by Brian Tomlinson; and "Language Teaching Materials and the (Very) Big Picture", Andrew Littlejohn.
Laura Daniela Rojas
Flashcards by Laura Daniela Rojas, updated more than 1 year ago
Laura Daniela Rojas
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Materials could be... - Informative. - Instructional. - Experiential -Eliciting. -Encouraging.
Evaluation of the material -Evaluation criteria are specific to the context of learning.
Materials production ... How do writers write? -Experts VS novices. -The experts envisaged possibilities in concrete detail, they wrote, showed learner/context-sensitivity.
Acceptability & Humanizing Materials - To avoid giving offense and offer taboo topics, to avoid sexism and racism. -To help learners to personalize, localize, and make meaningful their experience of the target language.
ELT materials: the 1950s to the 1980s Britain and North America are the sources of much innovation in ELT methodology. The 1950s, a period reflecting, the birth of modern-day language teaching.
The 1950s/60s and the Cold War Behaviorism is one form of another that has been firmly cemented into language teaching materials.
The late 1960s to the late 1970s - DIY (Do It Yourself). -Self-access work, featuring self-study materials.
The 1970s to the mid-1980s -Tools for the specification of an individual’s particular needs. -Special Purposes. -Unique ways of approaching language study, own styles, and strategies.
McDonaldization Ritzer (1993, 2012) -All people involved there is a result of a DEHUMANIZED AND STANDARDIZED ENVIRONMENT, -Workers and customers are “effectively caged”. -COLONIZING areas of social life,.
Neoliberalism Adam Smith -The market is the arbiter for all. -ATOMIZATION, a subdivision of goods and services. -The COMMODIFICATION OF LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE.
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