MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING

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Mind Map on MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING, created by Laura Yineth on 26/02/2016.
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MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING
  1. 1. HISTORY
    1. Materials development started to appear in the mid-nineties
      1. Books developers gave more importance to materials development on language teaching methodology
        1. The literature on materials development now focuses less on ways of selecting materials and more on the application of theory to practice and practice to theory
        2. MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT MAIN FOREFATHERS: Byrd (1995), Cunningsworth (1995), Graves (1996), Tomlinson (1998), McDonough & Shaw (1998, 2003), Fenner & Newby (2000), Richards (2001)
        3. 2. EVALUATION
          1. 1 Establishing criteria and developing evaluation instruments
            1. Much of the early literature attempted to develop criteria for evaluating and selecting materials
              1. Mukundan & Ahour (2010) criticised many evaluation checklists for a lot of lacks. after analizing them during 38 years, they concluded that a framework for generating clear, concise and flexible criteria would be more useful than detailed and inflexible checklists.
              2. 2 Reporting evaluations
                1. Materials evaluation's literature is focused on the principles and procedures of conducting evaluations. and also the effectiveness of materials
                  1. Piloting, as a way to receive and analyze feedback for knowing the effectiveness of materials in development, increases the time publishers spend, so, it decreases its use
                2. 3. ADAPTATION
                  1. Materials adaptation
                    1. How teachers adapt materials systematically or intuitively every day and the help it contributes when talking about literature.
                      1. Materials adaptation through purposes and materials design ( Evaluation - Development - Adaptation ) based on students needs and analysis
                    2. 4. PRODUCTION
                      1. Writing
                        1. -Replicating previous materials -Adapting activity types -Relying upon creative inspiration
                        2. Development of materials
                          1. Writers state a set of principles and procedures of materials development, based on what works on their job and also students needs and abilities
                        3. 5. EXPLOITATION
                          1. Effectiveness of materials
                            1. Ways of using textbooks and resources, realia of teachers and students, teachers and students, experience and context.
                          2. 6. ISSUES
                            1. 6.1 Value and need for published materials
                              1. There has always been a big argument about whether materials are the best way for delivering language-learning materials or not.
                                1. Many teachers have also replaced published materials without requiring the teacher to find or write materials.
                                2. 6.2 Pedagogic approaches
                                  1. There have been pedagogical innovations in materials development through the history, in which all sources have been modified for supplying no only teachers but also students needs.
                                  2. 6.3 Authenticity and acceptability of texts
                                    1. 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 (Affective and effective response)
                                    2. 6.4 Materials roles
                                      1. Organisational, pedagogical and learner advantages
                                        1. Facilitating reading by making hidden information available
                                          1. Free source of a variety of authentic texts
                                            1. Collaborative problem solving activities inside and outside the classroom;
                                          2. 7. PROJECTS
                                            1. Much of the innovation in materials development has taken place on projects sponsored by ministries or institutions
                                            2. 8. RESEARCH
                                              1. Richards (2005): All materials reflect the writers’ theories of language, language use and language acquisition
                                                1. some published research on the effects of materials on their users:
                                                  1. Day & Bamford (1998); Elley (1991); Krashen (2004); Chapelle (1998), 2001; Chapelle & Lui (2007); Harwood (2010a) Mishan (2005); Mukundan (2003, 2006a, 2006b, 2008a, 2009a)
                                                2. Chapelle (2008) points out how surprisingly little research has been published on materials development, use and evaluation
                                                3. 9. CONCLUSION
                                                  1. Current situation
                                                    1. In the last forty years materials development has progressed dramatically, in both academic and practical fields
                                                      1. Development of the awareness of the principles and procedures of materials, and a critical analysis of the coursebooks
                                                    2. Gaps in the literature
                                                      1. Very little of the existing literature on materials development tells about the actual effect of different types of materials SLA, nor about how to encourage teachers and learners to try new types of materials
                                                      2. Future of materials development
                                                        1. Materials will be delivered electronically
                                                          1. Local creation of materials
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