Introduction to

Materials
Development
Discussant: Rhealyn E. Ausan
BSED-2 ENGLISH
Current trends
and issues in
materials
development
What are the
issues in
Materials
Development?
 What should drive • Needs and wants of the learners
materials? should drive the materials.

How should materials • Professional materials writers and

be developed? Teacher

How should materials • In an ad-hoc, impressionistic way.

be evaluated?

Should texts be • There are many debate about using

authentic? authentic text.
 Do learners
need a
coursebook?

Should Do
published learners
materials Other need
be issues: published
censored? material at
all?
Should
materials be
learning or
acquisition
focused?
 Should materials be
Should materials be Should materials cater
driven by syllabus
driven by theory or for learner expectations
needs, learner needs or
practice? or try to change them?
market needs?

Should materials aim

for language Should materials aim
development only or to contribute to teacher
also aim for personal development as well as
and educational language learning?
development?
 What are the
current trends in
Materials
Development?
 Eight (8) Positive Trends
1) Material need to discoveries
2) More materials making use of corpus
3) Produce reader series
4) Relationship between students and learning process
5) Increase that link with affective engagement of learners
6) Increasing in using internet
7) Movement of grammar
8) Increase in producing their relevant local material
Negative Trends
1) Central place of grammar in the language curriculum
2) Prominence between listening and speaking than reading and
writing
3) Assumption that the learners have short attention span
4) Learners do not gain if they are engaged in intellectually
demanding activities.
5) Neglect in the use of literature
6) Predominance of analytical activities
7) Absence of controversial issues
8) We underestimate our learners
Thank You!!