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LANGUAGE & MATERIALS
Cards in this deck (10)
- 1Materials could be...- Informative.
- Instructional.
- Experiential
-Eliciting.
-Encouraging.
- 2Evaluation of the material-Evaluation criteria are specific to the context of learning.
- 3Materials production ... How do writers write?-Experts VS novices.
-The experts envisaged possibilities in concrete detail, they wrote, showed learner/context-sensitivity.
- 4Acceptability & 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.
- 5ELT materials: the 1950s to the 1980sBritain and North America are the sources of much innovation in ELT methodology.
The 1950s, a period reflecting, the birth of modern-day language teaching.
- 6The 1950s/60s and the Cold WarBehaviorism is one form of another that has been firmly cemented into language teaching materials.
- 7The late 1960s to the late 1970s- DIY (Do It Yourself).
-Self-access work, featuring self-study materials.
- 8The 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.
- 9McDonaldization 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,.
- 10Neoliberalism 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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- 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.
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- Laura Daniela Rojas
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