Quizz Materials development for language learning and teaching

According to Brian Tomlinson Materials can be?

Materials development involve?

the good teacher is constantly adapting materials?

Many of the lists of evaluation criteria in the literature above are specific to a context of learning and cannot be transferred to other contexts without considerable modification

Tomlinson & Masuhara (2004: 7) proposed the following questions for evaluating criteria: a) Is each question an [blank_start]evaluation question[blank_end]? b) Does each question only [blank_start]ask one question[blank_end]? c) Is each question [blank_start]answerable[blank_end]? d) Is each [blank_start]question free of[blank_end] dogma? e) Is each question [blank_start]reliable[blank_end] in the sense that other evaluators would [blank_start]interpret it in the same[blank_end] way?

Very few of the lists of criteria proposed in the literature satisfy these conditions, and most of them are not generalisable or transferable. For example:

Tomlinson (2003b) He defines local criteria as those [blank_start]specific to the context[blank_end] in which the materials are [blank_start]going to be used[blank_end], arguing that they are best [blank_start]generated[blank_end] from a profile, recognises that evaluation is inevitably [blank_start]subjective[blank_end], that it ‘focuses on [blank_start]the users of the materials[blank_end]’ and attempts to measure the potential or actual [blank_start]effects[blank_end] of the materials on their users

Materials adaptation: The important point is that good t[blank_start]eachers[blank_end] are always a[blank_start]dapting[blank_end] the m[blank_start]aterials[blank_end] in order to achieve the optimal congruence between materials, methodology, le[blank_start]arners[blank_end], obj[blank_start]ectives[blank_end] and the target la[blank_start]nguage[blank_end], the teacher’s pe[blank_start]rsonality[blank_end] and teaching st[blank_start]yle[blank_end]

Materials production: (Tomlinson 2008b) the language experience needs to be contextualised and comprehensible, the learner needs to be motivated, relaxed, positive and engaged.

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