Language Teaching Materials and the very Big Picture

INTRODUCTION
1. Relationship between:
  1. The design of materials
    1. Materials are cultural tools
      1. Beyond the classroom
        Interaction between:
        Teachers
        Learners
  2. The context of it
From 1950's to the 1980's
1. 1950
  1. The birth of modern-day language teaching
    1. Thanks to a crisis of confidence
      1. United States was to seek
        Identify
        Explanations
        A solution
        Other failing was identified
        In the ability of American Scientist
        to keep up with technological development
        In other parts of the world
        And thus foreign language teaching
        became in a priority
        One of the principal proponents of scientific approach
        Was Robert Lado
        His practice exercises
        were based on behavior
        Behaviourism is totally related with
        Language teaching materials
2. 1960 to 1970
  1. "The love generation"
    1. Had impact on
      1. Language teaching materials
        changing
        Behaviourism methodologies
        For
        Humanistic methodologies
        Doing that learners
        would produce language when they were ready
        The famous prhase
        "Doing your own things"
        Was a development in language pedagogy
        With the self-access work
        Self-study
3. 1970 to 1980
  1. The changes in this period were
    1. Teaching for special purposes
      1. Included in syllabus design
    2. Negotiated curricula
    3. communicative language teaching movement
New Imperatives on materials design
1. 1980's Onwards
  1. Cause - Effect
    1. External influences have a direct impact
      1. Implementation
        Standars
        Views
        What language teaching should be about
        To answer
2. McDonaldization
  1. Efficiency
  2. Predictability
  3. Standardization
    1. Materials
    2. Teachers
    3. Materials are guided
3. Neo-liberalism
  1. Social context
    1. Products
      1. Supply and Demand
CONCLUTION
1. Standardisation of materials design
  1. Try to
    1. Develop teacher guides
      1. Create
      2. Innovate
      3. Experimentate
      4. Rethink
Created by: Viviana Paola Sánchez Sandra Juliette García

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