Principles and procedures for developing materials for Language Learning

Principles and procedures for developing materials for Language Learning

1. Review of the Literature

   • Help learners to pay attention to features of authentic input
   • Provide students with opportunities to use the target language to achieve communicative purposes
   • Provide opportunities for feedback of results
   • Achieve impact in the sense that they awaken and sustain the curiosity of students and attention
   • Expose the learners to language in authentic use
   • Stimulate intellectual, aesthetic and emotional involvement.

2. Proposed Approaches to Principles for the Development of ELT Materials

   • Develop flexibility frameworks to help them produce effective materials for target students in principle and coherent ways.

3. Principle of Language Acquisition 1

   • A prerequisite for language acquisition is that students are exposed to a rich, meaningful and understandable input of the language in use.
   • Principles of Materials Development
     • Make sure that the language to which students are exposed is authentic
     • Make sure that the language entry is contextualized
     • Make sure that the materials contain many spoken and written texts
     • Make sure that students are exposed to sufficient samples of language in authentic use

4. Principle of Language Acquisition 2

   • For students to maximize their exposure to language in use, they need to be engaged both emotionally and cognitively in the language experience
   • Principles of Materials Development
     • Prioritize the commitment potential
     • Make use of activities that make students think about what they are reading or listening to and responding personally
     • Make use of activities that make students think and feel before, during and after. Using the target language for communication

5. Principle of Language Acquisition 3

   • Language learners who achieve positive affect are much more likely to achieve communicative competence than those who do not.
   • Principles of Materials Development
     • Make sure the texts and assignments are as interesting, relevant and enjoyable as possible
     • Set achievable challenges that help raise students' self-esteem
     • Stimulate emotional responses through the use of music, songs, literature, art, etc.

6. Principle of Language Acquisition 4

   • Language students L2 can benefit from the use of mental resources that are normally used when acquiring and using their L1.
   • Principles of Materials Development
     • Make use of activities that cause students to visualize and / or use internal speech before During and after
     • Make use of activities that help students reflect on their mental activity
     • Make use of activities that cause students to visualize and / or use internal speech before and after using the language themselves

7. Principle of Language Acquisition 5

   • Language students can benefit from noticing the outstanding features of the entrance.
   • Principles of Materials Development
     • Instead of attracting students' attention to a particular feature of a text and then providing explicit information about its use
     • Use an experiential approach in which students are first of all provided with an experience that engages them holistically.

8. Principle of Language Acquisition 6

   • Students need opportunities to use language to try to achieve communication.
   • Principles of Materials Development
     • Provide many opportunities for students to produce language
     • Make sure these exit activities are designed so that students are using Language instead of just practicing specific characteristics of it.
     • Design exit activities to help students develop their ability to communicate fluently, accurately, appropriately and effectively.