Materials development in ELT

Which are the principal approaches to evaluation?

• Suggestopedia and CLT

• Impression approach and Audiolingual Method

• In-depth and Impression approach

What is the first step in selecting the best course book?

• Elaborating a list of potential coursebooks

• The coursebook which most closely the requeriments will be the best available

• Identifying the aims and objectives of your teaching program

Choose the four stages  when we are going to select a coursebook.

• Select an approach, determination of skills, adapting of the coursebook, improve of methods.

• Analysis, interpretation, evaluation and selection

• Gather for information, adapting lesson planing, checking  feedback

How does the communicative approach affect grammar teaching and

error evaluation?

• It ignores grammar rules entirely

• It emphasizes real-world language use

• It focuses only on grammatical accuracy

What are the two meanings of "being communicative"?

• Notional and Formal

• Notional and Grammatical

• Notional and Functional

What are receptive skills?

• Listening and Reading

• Speaking and Reading

• Reading and Writing

Ellis outlines a scheme called retrospective evaluation that allows...

• teachers to reflect on the success or failure of the materials when implementing them in a classroom
  

• identify the qualities of a material and decide if it can be adapted to a syllabus

• teachers to reflect on their practice, which is closely linked to the notion of action research

What is the main goal of the internal evaluation?

• To assess how well the previously mentioned factors in the external evaluation are reflected in the materials

• To compare the materials with competitors' products

• To determine the cost-effectiveness of the materials
  

Why is it necessary to evaluate teaching materials according to Cunningsworth, 1984?

• Because teachers never use published course materials

• Because teachers use published course materials regularly and it is important to select the right ones

• Because teachers do not need to evaluate materials because they are already approved

1. What is the approach of the TBL?

• 1. The approach is form and function

• 1. The language

• 1. Accuracy