The document discusses several key points about selecting and adapting materials for language teaching:
1. Materials should match curriculum goals, the teaching approach, and target audience level.
2. Materials should make learning easier, be reasonably priced, attractive, and engage learners.
3. When adapting materials, teachers can omit, add, reduce, extend, modify, replace, or reorder content.
4. Cultural content in English textbooks should be accurate, unbiased, and use visual aids to help students understand other cultures.
The document discusses several key points about selecting and adapting materials for language teaching:
1. Materials should match curriculum goals, the teaching approach, and target audience level.
2. Materials should make learning easier, be reasonably priced, attractive, and engage learners.
3. When adapting materials, teachers can omit, add, reduce, extend, modify, replace, or reorder content.
4. Cultural content in English textbooks should be accurate, unbiased, and use visual aids to help students understand other cultures.
The document discusses several key points about selecting and adapting materials for language teaching:
1. Materials should match curriculum goals, the teaching approach, and target audience level.
2. Materials should make learning easier, be reasonably priced, attractive, and engage learners.
3. When adapting materials, teachers can omit, add, reduce, extend, modify, replace, or reorder content.
4. Cultural content in English textbooks should be accurate, unbiased, and use visual aids to help students understand other cultures.
The document discusses several key points about selecting and adapting materials for language teaching:
1. Materials should match curriculum goals, the teaching approach, and target audience level.
2. Materials should make learning easier, be reasonably priced, attractive, and engage learners.
3. When adapting materials, teachers can omit, add, reduce, extend, modify, replace, or reorder content.
4. Cultural content in English textbooks should be accurate, unbiased, and use visual aids to help students understand other cultures.
VERONIQUE ENDUYAN • The materials must match the goals and objectives of the syllabus. • It should be consistent with the teaching-learning situation and approach. • It must suit the target audience – level / ability, needs, interest, time, cultural content • It should be reasonably priced if cost is involved. • It should make learning easier and create joy and interest in the learners. • It should be attractive and colourful. • Make dialogues communicative
• Make learning activities relevant
• Meet the learners’ needs
• Use models of real, authentic language
Omission Leaves out things deemed inappropriate, offensive, unproductive Addition Add extra notes or exercises Reduction Shortens an activity Extension An activity is lengthened Modification Rewrite material to make it more appropriate Replacement Inadequate materials being replaced Reordering Decide whether the order presented in the textbook is suitable for students or not Branching Add options or alternative pathways to the activity 1. Patterns of thought - Common ways of thinking, where "thought" Is meant to include both factual beliefs as well as values and emotional attitudes. 2. Patterns of behaviour - Common ways of behaving; including behaviour from ways of talking to ways of ploughing the fields. 3. Patterns of artefact manufacture and use - Common ways of producing and using material objects; including objects from pens to houses. 4. The cultural information included in English textbooks should be correct and recent. 5. It should not be biased and should reflect background cultures of English. 6. It should include visual aids etc., to help students understand cultural information. i. Factual cultural information
ii. Attitudes and values
iii. Learning by doing
1. Physical geography; natural environment, climate, natural resources. 2. History 3. Religious 4. Types of industry. 5. Types of contacts with other groups. 6. Customs of habitation. 7. Customs of eating. 8. Customs of clothing. 9. Leisure, Sports and holidays • It should be presented in as many and varied ways as possible. • Eg: books, comics, video films, interactive video, computer games.
• Students should be led to actively pursue the
information rather than just to passively receive It. • This can be done by requiring cultural authenticity in essays, roleplays, etc. that the students are asked to produce or by using the interactive possibilities of the mechanical devices exemplified above. • Attitude is view point, a mind-set or a way of valuing life. • Evaluative statements of objects, people or events. • A collection of feelings. • Multiple experiences which leads to beliefs. • Beliefs cluster together to form values (that which you value). • Values of life shape itself, into a world view called ATTITUDE. • Values carry an individual’s concept of right and wrong. • Principles that guide our lives. They are designed to lead us to our ideal world. • Values define what is of worth, what is beneficial and what is harmful. • Values are standards to guide our action, judgement and attitudes. Teaching and training aimed at integrated linguistic and cultural competence can have several goals. Three of these are:
1. Providing insights about the new language and culture.
2. Attempting to Influence the student's attitudes In the direction of positive
or at least tolerant attitudes towards the new language and culture.
3. Becoming linguistically and culturally competent In the new language
and culture. Some examples of such "learning by doing" are the following: 1. Authentic contacts with speakers of the new language (through travel or visitors). 2. Roleplay 3. Essay writing. 4. Practical or aesthetical work in a new language - singing, reciting poetry, etc. 5. Interactive video or computer programs. 6. Debating. • https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/7a4d/99f0d4057dfb5ea51cb702198cf4b4 6a491e.pdf • http://iteslj.org/Articles/Kitao-Materials.html • http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1657- 07902015000200012