Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Materials development for language learning and
teaching
- 1. Introduction
- Materials facilitate the learning of
a language
- They can be informative, instructional, experiential, eliciting and exploratory.
- Materials
development
encompasses
the processes of
- Evaluation, adaptation, design,
production, exploitation and
research
- 2. History of publications
- First publications
aimed at selecting
materials
- Later, they
focused on the
application of
theory to
practice and
vice versa.
- 3. Materials evaluation
- Educators must develop their
own criteria based on
- The context of
evaluation and their
beliefs
- Therefore,
materials
evaluation is
subjetive
- Issues to
decide the
suitability are
- Usability,
generalisability,
adaptability and
flexibility
- 4. Materials
adaptation
- Context
- Materials aim to satisfy
students needs
- 5. Materials
production
- Approach to materials writing
- Given by some
agreed principles
- Deep and
multi-dimensional
processing of
language
- Language and discourse
salient, meaningful and
frequently encountered
- Learners' motivation
- Contextualized and
comprehensible
language experience
- 6. Materials
exploitation
- Few publications on research
- Results
- Novice teachers
rely on coursebooks
- Expert
teachers are
more selective
- 7.Issues in
materials
development
- Textbooks do not
touch the context
- Published materials are
useful but not mandatory
- Texbook-free courses
- Pedagogical
approaches
evolution
- From PPP to TBL
- Authentic
materials
- Acceptability
- Humanising materials
- Elicitating materials
- Ideology
- Technology
- Wide access
- Flexibility
- Facilitation of
authentic
materials
- 8. Materials
development projects
- Sponsored by
ministries or institutions
- India, Namibia,
Bulgaria, Romania,
Russia.
- 9.Research
in materials
development
- Innovation
- Motivation
- Social skills
- Materials evaluation
- Effects of materials
- 10. Conclusion
- Current materials
- Facilitate
ELT and ELL
processes
- Literature
- Should be interrelated
and coherent with the
contexts
- Technology
- Will have a vital place