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- 3. MATERIAL • The term material is used to refer to anything which is used by teachers or learners to facilitate the learning of a language. • Cassettes, videos, cd-Roms, dictionaries, grammar books, workbooks, photocopied exercise, food packages, photographs, live talk by invited native speakers, instruction given by a teacher, task written on cards or discussions between learners. • Anything which is deliberately used to increase the learners’ knowledge and/or experience of the language.
- 4. MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT • Anything which is done by writers, teachers or learners to provide sources of language input and to exploit those sources in ways which maximise the likehood or intake. • The supplying of information about and/or experience of the language in ways designed to promote language learning. • Two vital questions: • What should be given to the learners? • What can be done with it to promote language learning?
- 5. MATERIAL EVALUATION • Attempts to measure the value of materials. In many cases this is done impressionistically and consists of attempts to predict whether or not the materials will work, in the sense that the learners will be able to use them without too much difficulty and will enjoy the experience of doing so.
- 6. LANGUAGE TEACHING • Anything which is done by material developers or teachers to facilitate the learning of the language. • It includes a text book providing samples of language use and guiding learners to make discoveries from them.
- 7. LANGUAGE LEARNING • Language learning can be explicit (the learners are aware of when and what they are learning) • Language learning can be implicit (the learners are not aware of when and what they are learning) • Language learning can be declarative knowledge (knowledge about the language system) • Language learning can be procedural knowledge (knowledge of how the language is used)