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Materials and teaching
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- 1Types of material* Informative
* Experiential
* Eliciting
* Instructional
* Explorative
- 2—* Not until 1984 materials appeared as an ELT aspect that can be developed and not only selected.
* Application of theory to materials development - 3Materials evaluation* There are questions for evaluating criteria and, on the other hand, criteria in form of questions for evaluating materials.
* Evaluators need to develop their own criteria. Beliefs on how a language is best acquired will help to develop proper criteria.
* Evaluation is subjective, it focuses on users of materials and their effects on the users.
* From 2010 and on, the focus has been frameworks instead of checklists.
- 4Possible advantages of using textbooks*Security
* Progress
* Revision
* Time saving
* Textbook based lessons
* Course credibility
* Timetable classes
* Standardize teaching
- 5Possible disadvantages of using textbooks* Disempowerment of teachers and students.
* Textbooks do not take into account learners' wants and needs.
* Its use is to impose control and order
* They provides an illusion of system and progress.
* They have a superficial and reductionist way of planning.
- 6ELT materials: the 1950s to the 1980s*United kingdom and united states are the main developers of material and innovation in ELT methodology.
* The birth of modern-day language teaching.
- 7Cold War*Behaviorism was very much the dominant force in psychology and learning theory.
*Behaviorist way of teaching persistence right up to the present day, as the continuing use of drills, substitution tables , etc.
- 8The late 1960s to the late 1970s*Humanistic methodologies, which, although rarely implemented, were much talked
about and cited.
* ''Do it yourself''
* Self-access work, featuring self-study materials and teacherless language learning.
- 9The 1970s to the mid 1980s* The development of exhaustive tools for the specification of an individual’s particular
needs.
* ‘Special Purposes’ as a distinct branch of syllabus design
- 10—* McDonalds restaurants have become the best example of today's forms of instrumental rationality and its ultimately irrational and damaging consequences for people..
* McDonaldization is evident in the
standardization of teacher training
- 11—* ‘celebrity’ now permeates much UK published materials
* Standardize.d examinations poses a significant influence on what gets into teaching materials since the necessity of being qualified by those international exams.
“Common European Framework” provides precisely the kind of atomisation that the neo-liberalist logic
requires.
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