LLMD Final Reviewer
LLMD Final Reviewer
CLASSIFICATION OF MATERIALS
CREATED MATERIALS
instructional resources that have been particularly designed.
It refers to all of the materials intended to facilitate teaching and learning in
the classroom.
Advantages claimed for Authentic Materials
They have a positive effect on learner motivation.
They provide exposure to real language.
They relate more closely to the learner’s needs.
They support a more creative approach to teaching.
Curriculum Planning
Curriculum Implementation
Curriculum Evaluation
3 PHASES OF IM’s
Design Phase
Develop Phase
Dissemination Phase
Materials Evaluation
systematic appraisal measuring the potential value(s)
impressionistic or empirical
Effectiveness principle
compare what the learners knew and were able to do before.
Efficiency principle:
compare the learning gains evidenced by using one course book with the gains
evidenced by another course book.
1. Pre-Use Evaluation:
making predictions about the potential value of materials on people who use them
(Tomlinson 1998, 2003).
impressionistic, subjective and unreliable
Important especially in selecting materials
3. Post-Use Evaluation:
most important and valuable type of evaluation
measure the actual effects of the materials
provide reliable information
‘ Personalizing’
the relevance of content in relation to learners’ interests
‘Individualizing’
address the learning styles both of individuals and of the members of a class
‘Localizing’
international geography of English language teaching and
recognizes that what may work well in Mexico city may not do so in Edinburgh
or in Kuala Lumpur.
TECHNIQUES OF ADAPTATION
(McDonough, Shaw, and Masuhara, 2013)
Adding – extending and expanding materials
Deleting- subtracting (reducing the length)
Modifying – Internal change (Rewriting or Restructuring)
Simplifying – To simplify (instructions, sentence and grammatical constructions)
Reordering – putting parts of course books in different orders
CONNECTIVISM: A LEARNING THEORY FOR THE DIGITAL AGE