Materials Development For Language Learning and Teaching - PPTX Adlı Dosyanın Kopyası

Materials Development for Language Learning and Teaching by Tomlinson, B. (2012) Tuncer Can, PhD @ Istanbul University, HAYEF ELT

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Evaluation, adaptation, production and exploitation Ex: coursebooks, videos, graded readers, flash cards, games, websites and mobile phone interactions …

Introduction Materials can be informative (informing informative  (informing the learner about the target language), instructional (guiding instructional  (guiding the learner in practising the language), •

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experiential experiential (providing the learner with experience of the language in (providing use), eliciting (encouraging eliciting  (encouraging the learner to use the language) and exploratory (helping exploratory  (helping the learner to make discoveries about the language). Richard’s (2001: 251) ‘instructio ‘instructional nal materials generally serve as the basis of much of the language input that input that learners receive and receive  and the language practice practice that  that occurs in the classroom’. Tomlinson Tomlinso n et al. (2001) andMasuhara et al. (2008 in currently used adult EFL coursebooks: the emphasis in most coursebooks is on providing explicit teaching and practice. practice.

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It was not until the mid-1990s mid-1990s that  that materials development began to be treated seriously by academics as a field in its own right. Before then it tended to be considered as something that did were or asusually a sub-section of methodology, in practitioners which materials presented as examples of methods in action rather than as examples of the principles and procedures of materials development.

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Madsen & Bowen (1978) and Swales (1980) asserted that the «good teacher is constantly adapting materials»