By Prof Lic Yendrick Brown
yendrickbch@gmail.com
The topic develops principles, procedures of how to apply materials in an effective way.
It is very important to focus on what we call 4 needs(Hall 1995):
- Need to communicate
- For long term goals
- for authenticity
- student- centeredness.
According to (Jolly and Bolitho) we should identify the need for materials, the use, production, and of course the evaluation, I consider that every material should be created having all of these principles in consideration because that way we wil be able to apply the different procedures.
Speaking about materials they have to be applied or should be created thinking on how well or how useful, important, relevant, necessary, and helpful would it be for learners. Try to work on the 4 skills for learners to work in 4 different ways(more complete).
Students using the 4 needs
Excellent comment Professor Yendrick. Certainly materials should help our students to achieve their goal in their process of learning a second language, son we have to create them taking in to account the four needs this article refers about.
ReplyDeleteGreat ideas, I do agree with the principles you mentioned here, since deffinetly people need to have a goal when learning another language and if it's so then authenticity is required. Well done.
ReplyDeleteI agree that communication is one of the main goals in teaching or learning a second language.
ReplyDeleteI do agree with you. As teachers we always have to be working on how our materials can help our students' learning of English.
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