Characteristics of Good Language Teaching Materials Quiz

A characteristic which refers to having a noticeable effect on learners, that is when the learners’ curiosity, interest and attention are attracted.

• Materials should help learners to feel at ease

• Materials should help learners to develop confidence

• Materials should achieve impact

• Materials should require and facilitate learner self-investment

In this characteristics, it says that Learning materials should attempt to build confidence through activities which try to ‘push’ learners slightly beyond their existing proficiency by engaging them in tasks which are stimulating, which are problematic, but which are achievable too.

• Materials should help learners to develop confidence

• Materials should achieve impact

• Materials should help learners to feel at ease

• Materials should expose the learners to language in authentic use

What characteristics refers to learners should be given opportunities to use language for communication rather than just to practice it in situations controlled by the teacher and the materials?

• Materials should expose the learners to language in authentic use

• Materials should help learners to feel at ease

• Materials should help learners to develop confidence

• Materials should provide the learners with opportunities to use the target language to achieve communicative purposes

Which characteristics best describe this quotation “Research has shown... the effects of various forms of anxiety on acquisition: the less anxious the learner, the better language acquisition proceeds. Similarly, relaxed and comfortable students apparently can learn more in shorter periods of time.” (Dulay, Burt and Krashen 1982)?

• Materials should help learners to develop confidence

• Materials should help learners to feel at ease

• Materials should achieve impact

• Materials should expose the learners to language in authentic use

Which characteristics refers to if the learners want to be able to use the language for general communication, it is important that they are exposed to planned, semi-planned and unplanned discourse (e.g. a formal lecture, an informal radio interview and a spontaneous conversation)?

• Materials should provide the learners with opportunities to use the target language to achieve communicative purposes

• Materials should expose the learners to language in authentic use

• Materials should take into account that the positive effects of instruction are usually delayed

• Materials should take into account that learners differ in learning styles

Which of these characteristics refers to if the language that the learner produces is evaluated in relation to the purpose for which it is used, that language can become a powerful and informative source of information about language use?

• Materials should provide opportunities for outcome feedback

• Materials should permit a silent period at the beginning of instruction

• Materials should take into account that learners differ in affective attitudes

• Materials should take into account that learners differ in learning styles

Which characteristics best describe this:

"Those learners with a preference for studial learning are much more likely to gain from explicit grammar teaching than those who prefer experiential learning. And those who prefer experiential learning are more likely to gain from reading a story with a predominant grammatical feature than they are from being taught that feature explicitly"?

• Materials should permit a silent period at the beginning of instruction

• Materials should take into account that learners differ in affective attitudes

• Materials should take into account that learners differ in learning styles

• Materials should provide opportunities for outcome feedback

Which of the following characteristics best describe this:

"The learner’s motives, emotions, and attitudes screen what is presented in the language classroom... This affective screening is highly individual and results in different rates and results. (Dulay, Burt and Krashen 1982). Difference in motivation, difference in feelings and attitude about the language, teachers, fellow learners and Materials"?

• Materials should take into account that learners differ in affective attitudes

• Materials should expose the learners to language in authentic use

• Materials should provide the learners with opportunities to use the target language to achieve communicative purposes

• Materials should take into account that learners differ in learning styles

This characteristic has been shown that it can be extremely valuable to delay L2 speaking for beginners of a language until they have gained sufficient confidence in understanding it. This silent period can facilitate the development of an effective internalized grammar which can help learners to achieve proficiency when they eventually start to speak in the L2.

• Materials should make the students feel the silence of the learning environment

• Materials should help learners to feel at ease

• Materials should put the students in a silent period

• Materials should permit a silent period at the beginning of instruction

This Characteristics states that acquisition results from the gradual and dynamic process of internal generalization rather than from instant adjustments to the learner’s internal grammar. It follows that learners cannot be expected to learn a new feature and be able to use it effectively in the same lesson.

• Materials should provide opportunities for outcome feedback

• Materials should permit a silent period at the beginning of instruction

• Materials should take into account that the positive effects of instruction are usually delayed

• Materials should take into account that learners differ in learning styles