Guidelines for Designing Effective English Language Teaching Materials

Advantages

 Contextualisation

 individual needs

 Personalisation

 timeliness

Disadvantages

 organisation

 quality

 time

Factors to Consider When Designing Materials

1. learners

2. curriculum and the context

3. resources and facilities

4. Personal confidence and competence

 5. copyright compliance.

6. Time

7.

Guidelines for Designing Effective English Teaching Materials

Guideline 1: English language teaching materials should be contextualised

 to the curriculum they are intended to address

 to the experiences, realities and first languages of the learners.

 to topics and themes that provide meaningful, purposeful uses for the target language.

Guideline 2: Materials should stimulate interaction and be generative in terms of language

Guideline 3: English language teaching materials should encourage learners to develop learning

skills and strategies.

Guideline 4: English language teaching materials should allow for a focus on form as well as

function.
Guideline 5: English language teaching materials should offer opportunities for integrated

language use.

Guideline 6: English language teaching materials should be authentic.

 in terms of the texts

 in terms of the tasks.

Guideline 7: English language teaching materials should link to each other to develop a

progression of skills, understandings and language ítems.

Guideline 8: English language teaching materials should be attractive.

Guideline 9: English language teaching materials should have appropriate instructions.

Guideline 10: English language teaching materials should be flexible.

 Durabilty

 Ability to be reproduced.
Gardner’s theory “multiple intelligences”

 each of us has a number of relatively independent mental faculties,

which can be termed our “multiple intelligences.”

seven intelligences which  work together: linguistic, logical-

mathematical,  musical,  bodily-kinesthetic, spatial, interpersonal and

intrapersonal; he later added an eighth, naturalist intelligence .

“learning styles.”