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Language Teaching Materials Flashcards
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- 1Language Learning Material DevelopmentMaterials are everything that is used to facilitate language learning.
- 2—Materials development includes evaluation, adaptation, design, production, exploitation and research.
- 3—Materials are propositions for action in the classroom.
- 4—Criteria for materials evaluation should be developed before their production.
- 5Materials development has been a reflex action to social developments; they are shaped by the context in which they occur.They bear the hallmarks
of the production conditions outside the classroom.
- 6—Mcdonaldization and Neo-liberalsm shape ELT materials design.
- 7—Materials respond to influences from outside the classroom.
- 8—Language teaching was highly influenced by the Cold War and the launching of the Sputnik satellite; they changed the history of language teaching
for all time.
- 9—Rejection of mainstream: Krashen aimed to take language teaching back to a more natural, simpler life, where learners would produce language when they were “ready,” to recreate the conditions of our linguistic infancy.
- 10—From 1970s onwards, there was a bigger concern for individuals' linguistic wants and needs.
- 11—Materials suitability:
Usability
Generalizability
Adaptability
Flexibility - 12—From this decade, it was recognized that learners have their own
ways of approaching language study; their own styles and strategies.
- 13Learning to learn English (1989) Language learning was a person-centred activity.
- 14—Materials adaptation is important
in order to achieve the optimal congruence between materials, methodology, learners, objectives, the target language and the teacher’s personality and teaching style.
- 15—Teacher guides should encourage and support experimenting, rather than providing the familiar blow-by-blow instructions
- 16—There is a need for research on the effects of different types of materials on language acquisition.
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