What to keep in mind when developing teaching materials
- 1. What to Keep in Mind When Developing Teaching Materials By Rosa Sandoval www.rvsandoval.blogspot.com
- 2. 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.
- 3. 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
- 4. 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
- 5. 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
- 6. 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
- 7. Flexibility Teachers need to adapt materials to different kind of realities, situations and ages
- 8. Moving from text to Language When you are using texts, the last activities you have to do are about grammar
- 9. Providing Engaging Content Material has to achieve interaction with the students senses, feelings, views and intuitions of the learners
- 10. Learner Development Teaching Material helps students to take interest in learning by themselves