ENGL30

Preparation of
Language Learning
Materials
YOJI ANNE M. FERMA, LPT, MAEd
Instructor
WHAT DO WE
NEED
MATERIALS
FOR?
 MATERIALS
AND

A. MATERIALS
DEVELOPMENT
 MATERIALS
AUTHENTIC ARTIFICIAL
-any materials which are -any materials which are
not designed for learning designed and intended
and teaching purposes. for learning and teaching
example: purposes.
example:
Newspaper, radio
broadcasts, etc. Textbooks, etc.
 WHAT ARE MATERIALS?

•It is one of the five important

components of language teaching:
students, teachers, materials,
teaching methods, and evaluation.
•is used to increase the learners knowledge and/or
experience of the language.

•In language learning, MATERIALS are the

LEARNING.

•Most substantial and observable component of

pedagogy.
 ROLE OF MATERIALS

• The function of materials depends on the users:

teachers and learners.
• It organizes teaching and learning process.

• Most economical way of organizing the syllabus and

leads teachers to new techniques and strategies.
•Allow learners to progress at their own rates of
learning.
•Provides opportunity for self evaluation and
progress in learning.
•However, materials facilitate learner self investment,
provide the learners with opportunities to use the
target language to achieve communicative purposes.
-Depending on curriculum aims and the
learner needs , materials are:
•Prepared, edited, selected
•Verbal (oral/written)
•Non Verbal (picture, diagram, etc.)
• Teacher centered, learner centered, self learning
oriented or skill related.
• General or Specific
 TYPES OF
MATERIALS
• TEXTBOOKS • REMEDIAL
MATERIAL
• WORKBOOK
• TEACHERS MANUAL • REFERENCE
MATERIAL
• AUDIO VISUAL
MATERIAL
• SUPPLEMENTARY
MATERIALS
1. Introduction
to materials
development
 Tomlinson
(2011)
Materials are
anything which is
used by teachers and
learners to facilitate
the learning of a
language.
 Tomlinson
(2011)
Materials could
obviously be videos,
DVDs, emails,
YouTube, dictionaries,
grammar books,
readers, workbooks or
photocopied exercises.
Tomlinson (2011)
They could also be
newspapers, food
packages, photographs,
live talks given by invited
native speakers,
instructions given by a
teacher, tasks written on
cards or discussions
between learners.
 m a teri a l s d ev el o p m ent ?
What is
Materials development refers to all the
processes made use of by practitioners
who produce and/or use materials for
language learning, including materials
evaluation, their adaptation, design,
production, exploitation and research
We want materials to:
a. arouse our learners’ interest
b. be challenging enough
c. make the students feel that they are
having a properly planned class
d. support and guide both the students and
the teacher, and provide structure and
progression (even if this is not explicit)
We want materials to:
e. provide a variety of experience in terms
of texts
f. be a resource that introduces and/or
reinforces areas of lexis or grammar.
g. teach new skills and strategies that our
learners really need
h. provide knowledge about other cultures
 We want materials to:
i. be a ‘springboard’ that stimulates students
to engage with the language and use it
j. stimulate interest in non-linguistic issues
k. guide learners to be more autonomous
l. be flexible for other teachers to use or for
teachers to personalise
m. provide teachers with sound teaching
principles.
Materials design is a special case of the
application of the sophisticated kind of
thinking that expert teachers possess.
Includes:

- Analysing potential lesson content (e.g

realia, text) and identifying how to
transform into teaching resource
 -Identifying linguistic goals
- Developing instructional tasks
as basis for the lesson
- = ‘TRANSFORMATION’ This
is also one of the core skills of
an expert materials writer.
 five key purposes
of materials:
learner
1. Materials meet a
psychological need (a, b,
which it is
c, d). Firstly, through difficult
texts, topics, tasks and for the
visuals, materials can teacher alone
provide motivation for
to sustain.
the
 five key purposes
of materials:

Secondly, in the case of a and, indeed,

set of course materials, meet their
they give learners and expectation that
teachers at least a sense learning involves
of ordered progression materials.
 five key purposes
of materials:

While there is a good

deal of evidence that the belief that one
is making steady
progress in a
and systematic
language is not progress can itsel
steady and can be important
systematic,
 five key purposes
of materials:

2. Materials provide but they

exposure to the language cannot
(e). Teachers themselves provide the
are, of course, important
sources of exposure to the
range of
target language (TL), exposure.
 five key purposes which can be
of materials: achieved
– different spoken through
carefully
and written selected
genres and styles, listening and
different accents reading texts
and so on – and through
visual media.
 five key purposes
of materials:
3. Materials are vehicles of They can also
information (f, g, h). provide
Materials can provide learner
information about grammar
and vocabulary and about training in
the TL culture/s and other different skills
cultures which may be more and
accurate and comprehensive
than the teacher’s alone. strategies.
 five key purposes
of materials:

4. Materials provide a This might be in

stimulus for other the form of an
activities (i, j, k, l). immediate
Materials – texts or reaction to a text or
tasks, for example – can a more extended
elicit an oral or written discussion, debate
response from learners. or project.
ANS W E R T H E
FOL L O W I NG
QU E S T I O N S :
1. How do the learning
materials cater to
diverse learning styles
and disabilities?
 2. Are the learning
materials accessible to
students with
disabilities?
 3. How are learning
materials promote
inclusivity and respect
for all students?
4. How do the learning
materials address
different levels of
proficiency or knowledge
among students?
Thank you