Forms of

Materials
Teaching materials is a generic term used to
describe the resources teachers use to
deliver instruction. Teaching materials can
support student learning and increase student
success. It may come in many shapes and
sizes, but they all have in common the
ability to support student learning.
 Form of Materials in Teaching

Instructional materials can be classified by type,

including print, visual, and audiovisual, among
others:

Print: Textbooks, pamphlets, handouts, study

guides, manuals
 Form of Materials in Teaching

Audio: cassettes, microphone, podcast

Visual: charts, real objects, photographs,
transparencies
Audiovisual: slides, tapes, films, filmstrips,
television, video, multimedia
Electronic Interactive: Computers, graphing
calculators, tablets
Authentic
Materials
English presented in the classroom should be
authentic involve language naturally occurring as
communication in native-speaker contexts of use
real newspaper reports, for example, real
magazine articles, real advertisements, cooking
recipes, horoscopes, etc. Most of the teachers
throughout the world agree that authentic texts or
materials are beneficial to the language learning
process.
Authentic material refers to items that have not
been designed or adapted for use in an English
language classroom such as magazines,
newspapers, video clips and song lyrics.
 Advantages
● They have a positive effect on learner motivation.
● They provide authentic cultural information.
● They provide exposure to real language.
● They relate more closely to learners needs.
● They support a more creative approach to teaching.
 Disadvantages
● Contain difficult language, unneeded vocabulary items
and complex language structures.
● Authentic materials may be too culturally.
 Non-
authentic
material
Non-authentic materials are those that are
specifically designed for the language
learners. They are either adapted or
simplified or written keeping in mind the
language proficiency of the learners.
Non-authentic material refers to anything
that has been designed specifically to aid the
teaching process such as worksheets,
textbooks and instructional CD’s or DVD’S.
 Advantages
● Materials are relevant, useful and focused on what students
are learning at the point.
● They are specially designed for learning purposes.
● The language used in them is artificial.
● They contain well formed sentences all the time.
● They are useful for teaching grammar.
 Disadvantages
● Typographical error.
● Changes of information through time.