Materials development
for language learning and
teaching
Materials evaluation
evaluation instruments
set a series of questions about how
suitable the activities are
Materials adaptation
adapt the materials to the
context in which the teachers
are using them.
Annotations:
in order to achieve a congruence between materials, methodology, learners, objectives, the target language and the teacher's personality and style.
adding, deleting, modifying,
simplifying and reordering.
involve learners in the
process
Annotations:
written taking into account the learner adaptation.
aiming to be learner-centred,
flexible, open-ended, relevant,
universal and authentic.
giving choices to
learners.
Materials production
influence by
principles of language
acquisition
focus on the creative,
inspirational aspect of materials
and on making use of prior
experience of teaching
Materials exploitation
procedures to help teachers to
humanise their coursebooks.
teachers adapt aspects of cultural content.
Annotations:
local institutional and classroom requirements.
Issues
value of textbooks
Agree: offer teachers the resources
they need to base their
lessons on.
Disagree: is inevitably superficial and reductionist in its
coverage of language points and its provision of
language experience.
Published Materials
over the years published materials have been replacen with
home-made materials to achieve relevance and engagement.
pedagogic approaches
for the last 40 years PPP
approaches have been used.
Annotations:
frequent use of low-level practice activities as listen and repeat, dialogue repetition, matching and filling in the blanks.
many writers have proposed more
experiential approaches to using
language-learning materials
Annotations:
language awareness approach: learners first experience a text holistically and then analyse it with a view to making discoveries for themselves about language use
texts and tasks
Agree: help the learners by
focusing their processing energies
on the target feature.
Disagree: overprotect
learners and don't prepare
them for reality of language
use outside the classroom.
authenticity: in relation
with the learner's
culture.
Acceptability
related with taboos such
as sex, racism or homosexualism.
humanising materials
the necessity of personalise, localise and make
meaningful the learners experience in the target
language.
need for materials to be effectively
engaging and cater for all learning style
preferences.
new technologies in
language-learning materials
Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) materials
facilitate learning depending on how the technology is
implemented.
facilitate reading
Annotations:
by supporting comprehension with graphics, video and sound.
facilitate writing
Annotations:
trough modelling the genre, demonstrating the process, facilitating brainstorming and research.
oragnizational advantages
Annotations:
such as easy acces, convenient storage and retrieval and easy sharing.
free source of authentic texts
collaborative problem solving
activities inside and outside the
classroom.