what to keep in mind when developing teaching materials
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What to Keep in Mind When Developing Teaching Materials
By Rosa Sandoval
www.rvsandoval.blogspot.com
Authentic Input
• Communicative competence is the ability to talk to others in an acceptable way without improper expressions or personal and cultural offense.
• To achieve this goal, authentic input is incorporated into the language instruction through the use of songs, games, stories, videos that are derived from the target language and culture.
Frameworks in Materials Development
The role of frameworks is to guide the person selecting or making teaching materials in order to be coherent and flexible.
The person has:• To identify the need for materials• To explore the need for materials
Frameworks in Materials Development
• To contextualize the realization of materials
• To explore the students use of the materials
• To evaluate the materials against agreed objectives
Humanizing the Course Book
Some reasons to humanize a book
are:• To engage the students• To match the sociological and
psychological realities of a particular group of learners
• To connect learning English with the learners lives
Humanizing the Course Book
• To use the human being´s potential for multidimensional processing
(mental imaging, inner speech,
emotional responses)• To relax, to develop self-confidence• To use their experience of life, views,
interest and enthusiasm
Flexibility
Teachers need to adapt materials to different kind of realities,
situations and ages
Moving from text to Language
When you are using texts, the last activities you have to do are
about grammar
Providing Engaging Content
Material has to achieve interaction with the students senses,
feelings, views and intuitions of the learners
Learner Development
Teaching Material helps students to take interest in learning by
themselves