Designing materials for teaching autonomy
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Materials used in teaching can take many forms and should facilitate the learning process. When designing materials, they should match learning objectives, stimulate learners, and support the learning process. Some key factors to consider include learner needs, available resources, the teacher's skills, and curriculum context. Effective materials encourage interaction, integrated language use, and developing learning strategies. They should be authentic, attractive, and provide clear instructions. Some examples of materials a teacher can design are flashcards, wall charts, posters, and magazine pictures. Benefits of designing materials include motivating learners and allowing teacher autonomy, while disadvantages include the time required and ensuring quality.
Designing materials for teaching autonomy
- 1. Materials can be anything in linguistic, visual, auditory and kinesthetic forms that are used to facilitate the teaching and learning process. Designing Materials
- 2. Designing materials play a central role in teaching and learning; They provide opportunities for teachers to explore and learn new information which takes shape in the form of tasks. Why is it important designing materials?
- 3. A source of activities for learners practice and communicative interaction. A reference source for learners on grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation. A support for less experienced teachers. A source of stimulation and ideas for classroom activities. The role of materials
- 4. Will the materials stimulate and motivate? To what extend does the material match the stated learning objectives and your learning objectives? To what extent will the materials support the learning process? Questions to ask when designing materials
- 5. Good and effective teaching materials should Arouse and mantain learners´ interest and attention. Meet the learners needs and backgraound. Provide examples of language use. Provide meaningful activities. Provide opportunities por authentic learning use.
- 6. Achieve impact Help learners develop confidence Provide relevant and useful content Encourage leaners involvement Take into account that the learners have different learning styles
- 7. Foster learning autonomy Engage learners effectively and cognitively. Promote proposel use of language. Provide opportunities for outcome feedback. Provide the learners with opportunities to achieve communicative purpose.
- 8. ● Motivating students to learn vocabulary. ● Training students to use the language skills in various situations. ● Providing corporate scenario through materials and related tasks. ● Motivating students to interact with the learning materials, peers and discuss topics with teachers. ● Encouraging students to involve themselves in varied tasks. Materials should be designed with these objectives
- 9. • Learner needs Any consideration to desig materials must begin on base students´ needs. Factors to Consider When Designing Materials
- 10. • Resources and facilities Teachers must be realistic about what they can achieve in terms of materials design and production within the limitations of available resources and facilities.
- 11. Personal confidence and competence This will be influenced by the teacher’s level of teaching experience and his or her perceived creativity or artistic skills and overall understanding of principles of materials design and production.
- 12. • The curriculum and the context These are variables that will significantly impact in desicions about materials; they define the content, skills and values to be taught.
- 13. 1. English teaching materials should be contextualised Materials should be contextualized to the curriculum they are intended to address and also contextualised to the experiences, realities and first language of the learners. Guidelines for Designing Effective English Teaching Materials
- 14. 2. Materials should stimulate interaction and be generative in terms of language. Language teaching materials should provide situations where learners need to interact with each other in a manner that reflects the type of interactions they will engage in outside of the classroom.
- 15. 3.English language teaching materials should encourage learners to develop learning skills and strategies. It is important to provide learners with the confidence to persist in their attempts to find solutions when they have difficulties in communicating.
- 16. 4.English language teaching materials should offer opportunities for integrated language use. Materials should give learners opportunities to integrate all the language skills in an authentic manner and to become competent.
- 17. 5. English language teaching materials should be authentic. It assesses the student’s ability to efficiently and effectively use a repertoire of knowledge and skill to negotiate a complex task.
- 18. 6. English language teaching materials should be attractive Criteria for evaluating English language teaching materials and course books frequently include reference to the ‘look’ and the ‘feel’ of the product. - Physical appearance -User-friendliness -Durability - Ability to be reproduced.
- 19. 7. English language teaching materials should have appropriate instructions. Excellent materials fail in their “pedagogical realisation” because of a lack of clarity in their instructions. For instructions to be effective, they should be written in language that is appropriate for the target learners, and the use of the correct metalanguage can assist with making instructions more concise and efficient.
- 20. 1. Flashcards Examples of some materials that you can design
- 22. Wall chart
- 23. Posters
- 25. Positive effect on learner motivation Exposure to real language Encourage more teacher autonomy It is empowering It is memorable It is creative It encourages critical evaluation of teaching materials. Personalisation Advantages designing materials
- 26. It takes to much time It is not always possible to ensure that everyone is involved. Organisatation (materials may lack overall coherence and clear progression) Quality (they may contain errors,be poorly constructed and lack durability) Disadvantages designing materials