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1_MATERIALS FLASHCARDS
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- 1Language Teaching Materials and the (Very) Big Picture Andrew LittlejohnPurpose.
How the development of materials for language teaching has always been intimately connected to
the wider social and historical context in which it occurs. - 2ELT materials: the 1950s to the 1980s. " history is necessarily partial and subjective".Partial: Focus will be limited to those emanating from Britain and North
America.
Subjective: perspective for analysis by relevant samples of materials.
- 3"The 1950s/60s and the Cold War".On the United States foreign language
teaching came to take on a particular priority.
Behaviourism in one form
of another has been firmly cemented into language teaching materials,
- 4The late 1960s to the late 1970s.Flower power,’ ‘the love generation,’ ‘dropping
out,’ ‘do your own thing’ and DIY (Do It Yourself) were all key concepts of the time.
- 5The 1970s to the mid 1980s. "the 1970s appeared to take this one step further"The
increasingly affluent working class populations of the developed economies were said to be taking
on the individualist mindset of the middle classes, had firmly taken root.
- 6New imperatives on materials design: the mid 1980s onwards.It seems that ELT materials reflected the zeitgeist, the spirit of the times, as
some language teaching professionals sought to implement shifts in social attitudes into the design
of classroom work
- 7McDonaldization "McDonald’s, the hamburger chain, is characterised by an absolute emphasis on efficiency and total predictability".The evidence that we are moving towards
increasingly standardised materials, and that this appears to be happening in a number of
ways
- 8Neo-liberalism Relates to a much broader analysis of the social context in which language teaching takes place.It is not difficult to see how these forces are now clearly present in language teaching, and thus
directly impact language teaching materials.
- 9—the influence of the
wider social context on the design of English language teaching materials has generally been one
of inspiration
- 10classroom and non-classroom learning .Time through a plethora
of additional components such as DVDs, online exercises, video, mobile device applications,
as well as the more ‘traditional’ components such as workbooks, grammar practice books, and so
on.
- 11—teacher guides which encourage and support experimenting,
rather than providing the familiar blow-by-blow instructions.
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