Materials for Adult

Beginners from an L2
User Perspective
By. Vivian Cook
Hello!
I am Novyko Dwi Aulliah
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3 Asumssions about language teaching
materials for adults:
1. Adult students have adult mind and interests
Adult ≠ Children
L2 user outside the classroom
2. Second language users are people in their own right
Use L2 for their own purposes
3. Language teaching has been held back by unquestioning
acceptance of traditional nineteenth-century principles
Priority of speech

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 Adult students
have adult mind
1 and interests
Course book which must keep up the intrigued
of individuals who have specific reasons for
studying a new language, their interests, social
connections and level of intelligence.
a. The types of students aimed at
Visualize the types of students the course-books are intended for, one needs
to look at the characters they feature and the topics they are about
b. The topics discussed.
the course topics can interest the students during the lesson and allow them
to use a second language for their final purpose

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Sugesstion by Vivian Cook, how to choose the materials?

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1. Materials should be adult in theme, teaching
method and language.

⊹ The topics have to be explore able to an adult level of conversation,

⊹ Using adult roles, such as : workers, in the office etc.
⊹ Do adult activity such as: listing, ordering and sorting, comparing,
problem solving, sharing personal experience and creative

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 Second language
users are people
2 in their own right
⊹ Adoption of the native speaker goal
With an achievable goal in mind, the atmosphere in teaching can be more
positive
⊹ Native speaker language
The forms and pronunciation is native speakers
Sugesstion by Vivian Cook, how to choose the materials?

“ 2. Materials based on the L2 user perspective aimed

at adults should reflect the situations, roles, and
language of L2 users, not just native speakers

The target to motivation for learner

⊹ L2 user role (Course books need to present favorable images
of L2 users, both the invented characters in their dialogues
and the famous characters that are paraded from time to time)
⊹ L2 user situations
⊹ L2 user target language
⊹ The types of situation portrayed

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 Language teaching has
been held back by
unquestioning
acceptance of
3 traditional nineteenth-
century principles
⊹ Reliance on the first language
⊹ Emphasis on the spoken language
Suggestion by Vivian Cook, how to choose the method?

“ 3. teaching methods can go beyond the principles of

language teaching familiar since the nineteenth
century
⊹ Use of the first language in the classroom
Applied to course books the first language can be used for:
- conveying meaning
- explaining grammar
- giving instructions and tests
- using within teaching activities
⊹ Use of the written language in the course book
Written language can be authentic notices, signs, real advertisements
etc.; it can demonstrate proper discourse roles and functions. It can
take its place alongside spoken language as a crucial aspect of L2 use,
particularly in these days of emails, text messages and the web
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