Principles of Effective Materials Development

By: M.Sc. Virginia Baker Casanova

PRINCIPLES OF EFFECTIVE MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT

• Authentic input• According to Krashen, comprehensible

input in the target language is both necessary and sufficient for the acquisition of that language provided that learners are “affectively disposed” to “let in” the input they comprehend

Authentic input

• Activities: -Interviews -Doing projects in the local

community -Listening to the radio

-The use of body language• -Songs, games, and stories

PRINCIPLES OF EFFECTIVEMATERIALS DEVELOPMENT

• Ways to stimulate intellectual, aesthetic and emotional involvement -Music

-ArtSolving problems• Creativity• Pictures

PRINCIPLES OF EFFECTIVE MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT

• Flexibility.

• Moving from text to the language.

• Providing engaging content.

• Learner development.

PRINCIPLES OF EFFECTIVEMATERIALS DEVELOPMENT

• Humanizing the coursebook.

• Humanizing language learning without a coursebook.

• Humanizing it with a coursebook.

• Developing humanistic coursebook.

PRINCIPLES OF EFFECTIVE MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT

• Role of frameworks in material development.

• Every teacher is a material developer.• Contextual realization of materials.• Pedagogical realization of material.• Student use of material.• Evaluation of material.• Production of material