What to Keep in Mind When Developing Teaching Materials

By Rosa Sandoval

www.rvsandoval.blogspot.com

Authentic Input

• Communicative competence is the ability to talk to others in an acceptable way without improper expressions or personal and cultural offense.

• To achieve this goal, authentic input is incorporated into the language instruction through the use of songs, games, stories, videos that are derived from the target language and culture.

Frameworks in Materials Development

The role of frameworks is to guide the person selecting or making teaching materials in order to be coherent and flexible.

The person has:• To identify the need for materials• To explore the need for materials

Frameworks in Materials Development

• To contextualize the realization of materials

• To explore the students use of the materials

• To evaluate the materials against agreed objectives

Humanizing the Course Book

Some reasons to humanize a book

are:• To engage the students• To match the sociological and

psychological realities of a particular group of learners

• To connect learning English with the learners lives

Humanizing the Course Book

• To use the human being´s potential for multidimensional processing

(mental imaging, inner speech,

emotional responses)• To relax, to develop self-confidence• To use their experience of life, views,

interest and enthusiasm

Flexibility

Teachers need to adapt materials to different kind of realities,

situations and ages

Moving from text to Language

When you are using texts, the last activities you have to do are

about grammar

Providing Engaging Content

Material has to achieve interaction with the students senses,

feelings, views and intuitions of the learners

Learner Development

Teaching Material helps students to take interest in learning by

themselves