MATERIAL DESIGN

« Let’s analyze

our own context »

Purpose

Gain greater awareness of the diversity of factors

and criteria which might be taken into account

when designing materials.

School selected

Institucion Educativa Antonio Nariño.

Grade: 8°

Tasks

1. The objective of the class Deepen knowledge of the English

language through the use of TELL ME MORE software.

Is the objective coherent with the material used in

class ?The objective was completely coherent based on everything observed because

all the students were acquiring and practicing the target language !!

2. Samples

Working in the lab!

Making instructions clear !!

Student feeling at ease

with the material !!

material differed in learning

styles !!!

Material achieved impact !!!

3. To what extend do these material accomplish the

7 principles ? • Material should achieve impact.• Material should help learners to feel at ease.• Learners must be ready to acquire the points being

taught.• Materials should provide to the learners with

opportunities to use the target language to achieve communicative purposes.

• Material should take into account that learners differ in learning styles.

• Materials should take into account that learners differ in affective attitudes.

• Materials should provide opportunities for outcome and feedback.

• Material should achieve impact:

Novelty: here the students had an unusual topics and illustrations because they make use of a software where they choose by themselves the topic and the type of exercise which they wanted to do.Variety: here the students broke up with the monotony not only in the classroom with the books and the teacher talking all the time, like we said in the “novelty” they work in their computers and have different types of exercises in a different resource (computer and software).Attractive presentation: here we emphasize in the program where students work because they have enough space in which to work, have the use of photographs in which they made exercises of matching and had with spaces in which they feel more interested in working.Appealing content: material in which students work aroused great interest in discovering new things in the English and their desire to learn something new is bigger. investigate, play and do exercises on the topics and doing common things that students gain an interest in the English.

• Material should help learners to feel at ease:

taking into account the this principle, students had a desire to learn more and to learn new things in English, feel comfortable and come together at the same pace obtaining new knowledge, show a great interest in texts with images of exotic cultures than ever had seen before. felt very comfortable with the texts that try to help them improve their workouts.

• Learners must be ready to acquire the points being taught:

Readiness was a point which caught the attention for us because students wanted to interact with unknown topics and achieve activities in the software. The material accomplish to this principle for the reason that the material used offered different and unfamiliar topics for the learning process.

• Materials should provide to the learners with opportunities to use the target language to achieve communicative purposes:

Learners interacted with each other with the help of the earphones in some exercises, also they wrote stories of a video watched in the software, they made post listening and post-reading of the video. All this helped to develop the communicative purposes and with these students were not restricted to use the language only with the teacher’s instructions and material.

• Material should take into account that learners differ in learning styles.

Different learners have different preferred learning styles say the principle and it’s what we could observed in the class, students chose the exercise in which they felt more confortable to learn.

• Materials should take into account that learners differ in affective attitudes:

This principle was touched by its surface, we are talking about the variety of choices and different types of activities because we didn’t see any discussion or maybe the teacher being aware of the cultural sensitive and familial or personal problems of the pupils.

• Materials should provide opportunities for outcome and feedback:Maybe the objective was not to produce an outcome in this lesson and was centered in the development of another skills but not the communicative skill which was depending of the interaction between teacher and students or students and students, but they didn’t take it into account so feedback process wasn’t complete.

4. What do you feel when looking at material?

We were very surprised because of all those materials, the tecnology used for teaching English, the first thing that we did was to

remember when we were in high school it was pretty different than those times.

Also we felt confortable, the environment and the student’s material were in a perfect state.

Furthermore the software which students practice is very updated.

5. How do you think the designer got prepared to produce the material?

national bilingualism program offered this great opportunity to three schools of Monteria, the school observed by

our group was one of those schools, the main objective of the design of these laboratories is that

students have a closer relationship with the target language.

6. What resources do you think were used?

they make use of the software (tell me more), also each student have their own computer to work in, they have

internet, video bean, headphones and a digital board that is pretty

interesting and appealing.

7. What habilities could the designer expect learners too

develop?

• Listening

• Reading

• Speaking

8. Were activities and instructions clear?

students knew how to use the material properly and if there was any doubt in something the teacher made it again clear

instructions to handle the material.The activities were clear too because

the software gave the instructions in order to interact with it in the different stages of the

program.

9. What do you like most about this material? Do you think you can produce something similar? Better or much better?What we liked most was:

Environment, the technological material and

that students of a public school have this

opportunity .

about the production of a new material we

think that it’s almost imposible to make

something similar, but with efforts we can

try to produce a different material which

provide students with the different

principles before mentioned.!

10. Our material designing proposal !!

our proposal material was based on one of the topics with which students interacted with the software which was the family.with this idea we wanted to create a family tree of a member of that family for students to create sentences relating to the family and descriptions of it.

12. What has this activity taugth you about the process of

material design?

It was a great experience to observe the use of materials Because this taught us that the designing of material is very important for the acquisition of learning because if we provide good material for students then they will feel comfortable with the topics to learn.

THANKS FOR YOUR

ATTENTION !!