Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Creativity
Cognitive and
affective processing
Flexibility and
adaptability.
1. Material (texts and tasks) should be interesting, engaging, motivating and involving.
3. There should be careful progression with small steps, each leading to the next, and frequent
opportunities for review. PRINCIPLES AND PROCEDURES IN MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT19
4. The language syllabus should include functions dovetailed with grammar. It should be both
formulaic and rule-based. Lexis should be both theme-based and frequency-based, including
chunks as well as single words. Attention should be given to form and meaning. Learning should be
both explicit and implicit.
5. Receptive skills activities should involve detailed reading and listening and analysis, as well as
more global understanding. The skills syllabus should include a systematic teaching of micro-skills
as well as macro-skills (e.g., recognizing words in connected speech as well as understanding main
points). Skills should be integrated with each other and with language work. Extensive reading and
listening are important.
7. Focus on form or grammar elucidation should actively involve the students and should involve
an inductive element, involving discovery and deep-processing, where possible.
9. Flexibility is important for both students and teachers to meet student needs and different
learning styles and to enable teachers to select and rearrange activities to meet these. To this end,
there should be both a variety of activities to suit different learning styles and a range of
supplementary activities that students or teachers can choose from
10. The syllabus should meet non-linguistic aims as well as linguistic ones, for example, the
building of a cohesive group dynamic, the teaching of learning strategies, the building of student
self-esteem and motivation.
Are practical
materials
Expose the
genuineness and
naturalness of the
language. Rogers and
Medley (1988)
Expose the
genuineness and
naturalness of the
language and well-
contextualised in the
native
speakers' context.
These materials can
be in the form of oral
and written form
authentic materials
are identified by their
authenticity in time,
people, and location
Authentic materials
are real materials
which exist in the real
world of the
target language, used
in their daily life and
not produced for
teaching purposes.
Non-Authentic The materials are Both expose the
Designed for teaching usually in form of authenticity and
purposes only. textbooks. nature of the
language.
Planned, designed, Studies more the
and produced based grammar and the Both seek to make
on the curriculum and rules of the learning easier for
policy in each language. students
country.
is easier to
Built upon the understand. Focus on language
learner's needs and teaching dynamically
ability. This uses materials
based on a
Easy to understand. curriculum.
Simplified by
teachers.
References:
Maley, A. (2016). Principles and Procedures in Materials Development. In M. Azarnoosh, M.
Zeraatpishe, A. Faravani & H. Kargozari, Issues in Materials Development (4th ed., pp. 11-26).
Rotterdam. Retrieved from
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