Principles & Procedures of Materials Development

What are the kinds of materials?

• Authentic materials

• Created/Artificial materials

• Both of the above

Is the statement below True or False?

Materials development’ refers to all the rules made use of by practitioners who produce and/or use materials for language learning, including materials evaluation, their adaptation, design, production, exploitation and research.

• True

• False

“Teachers use post-listening and post-reading activities to ask students to use information from the text” belongs to which principle?

• Effect

• Pleasure

• Communicative purposes

. “Following instructions of a game” is of which learning styles?

• Analytic

• Auditory

• Kinaesthetic

“reciting a dialogue, writing a story, singing a song” are activities to .....

• ...engage students in using left and right brain

• ...stimulate mental processing

• ...enable learners to receive the information through cerebral processes and consciousness

“Providing learners with frequent exposure to authentic input which is rich and varied” belongs to which of the following principles?

• Exposing the learners to language in authentic use

• Drawing learner’s attention to linguistic features of the input

• Getting ready to acquire the points being taught

"Encouraging young learners to make up stories, make up short poems or make grammatical discovery" are the activities to...

• Help learners perceive the relevance and utility of the language and skills being taught

• Develop learners’ confidence

• Drawing learners’ attention to linguistic features of the input

How to develop materials based on the variety of affective attitudes?

• Providing choices of different types of text, activities

• Including activities that involve the learners in discussing their attitudes and feelings about the course and the materials.

• Both of the above

How many steps are there in materials adaptation?

• 3

• 4

• 5

Materials adaptation involves changing existing materials so that they become more suitable for specific __________, teachers or situation