1_MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING.

1_MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING.

1. MATERIALS EVALUATION

   • We have to take into account these question to evaluate a criteria of the material
     • a) Is each question an evaluation question? b) Does each question only ask one question? c) Is each question answerable? d) Is each question free of dogma? e) Is each question reliable in the sense that other evaluators would interpret it in the same way?
   • The results of the evaluation of the materials should be publish to share the knowledge adquired

2. MATERIALS ADAPTATION

   • good teachers are always adapting the materials they are using to the context in which they are using them

3. MATERIALS PRODUCTION

   • The inspiration to write or create a material could come in any moment
   • Some principles proposed by Tomilson are
     • The language experience needs to be contextualised and comprehensible
       • The language and discourse features available for potential acquisition need to be salient, meaningful and frequently encountered
     • The learner needs to be motivated, relaxed, positive and engaged
       • The learner needs to achieve deep and multi-dimensional processing of the language

4. MATERIALS EXPLOITATION

   • It is necessary to make a backup and feedback of each material which we use as a teachers

5. ISSUES IN MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT

   • A textbook can do all that its proponents say it does, but unfortunately many global coursebooks are not considered to be sufficiently engaging or relevant for their actual users
   • If a teacher has confidence, principled creativity and the respect of their learners, then a textbook-free course can actually be more facilitative in providing the personalised, relevant and engaging experience of language in use and opportunities for observing how the language is used and for meaningful communication
   • The materials need have a pedagogic approach which is focused in the students
   • An authentic text is one which is produced in order to communicate rather than to teach, and an authentic task is one which involves the learners in communication in order to achieve an outcome, rather than practice the language
   • The material have to be suitable with the social and cultural enviroment
   • The deep in the material is very important
     • It is inevitable that coursebooks communicate a view of teaching and learning, a view of the target language and the culture(s) they represent and the worldview of their producer

6. MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS

   • As teachers, we have to take into account the projects in developing materials at the time to create own material

7. RESEARCH IN MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT

   • We need to take materials evaluation forward into a more research-oriented framework, which will enable us to make claims about the effects of materials on the basis of evidence from research

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