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material development. week 1

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Select a language learning material

a)

videos, DVDs, , grammar books, photocopied exercises

b)

emails, YouTube, dictionaries

c)

newspapers, food packages,

d)

photographs, live talks by invited native speakers,

2.

materials ‘can be instructional that ......

a)

inform learners about the language

b)

provide exposure to the language in use

c)

stimulate language use

d)

facilitate discoveries about language use

3.

materials can be experiential that.................

a)

they inform learners about the language

b)

they provide exposure to the language in use

c)

they stimulate language use

d)

they facilitate discoveries about language use

4.

materials can be elicitative, that .....................

a)

they inform learners about the language

b)

they provide exposure to the language in use

c)

they stimulate language use

d)

they facilitate discoveries about language use

5.

materials can be exploratory, that ..................

a)

they inform learners about the language

b)

they provide exposure to the language in use

c)

they stimulate language use

d)

they facilitate discoveries about language use

6.

‘Materials development is both a field of study and a practical undertaking. As a field it studies the principles and procedures of ....................................’ (Tomlinson 2001: 66)

a)

design of language teaching materials

b)

implementation of language teaching materials

c)

evaluation of language teaching materials

7.

Materials evaluation is.....................

a)

the designing of the language teaching material

b)

the use of language teaching material

c)

to attempts to measure the value of materials

8.

if teaching is direct, it ....................

a)

helps the learners to discover things for themselves

b)

transmits information overtly to the learners

c)

aims to prevent problems

9.

if teaching is indirect, it......................

a)

transmits information overtly to the learners

b)

helps the learners to discover things for themselves

c)

aims to prevent problems

10.

If teaching is pre-emptive, it .......................

a)

transmits information overtly to the learners

b)

helps the learners to discover things for themselves

c)

aims to prevent problems

11.

Language learning can be explicit, which means.......................

a)

the learners are not aware of when and what they are learning

b)

learners are aware of when and what they are learning

12.

Language learning can be implicit, which means ........................

a)

e learners are aware of when and what they are learning

b)

the learners are not aware of when and what they are learning

13.

communicative competence is primarily achieved as a result of ...................., procedural learning

a)

implicit

b)

explicit

14.

(a)   learners prefer to see the language written down

15.

(a)   learners prefer to hear the language

16.

learners prefer to do something physical, such as following instructions for a game

(a)  

17.

(a)   learners like to use the language and are more concerned with communication than with correctness

18.

(a)   learners are happy to learn from their own experience of the language and to use autonomous learning strategies

19.

(a)   are “anything which can be used to facilitate the learning of a language, including coursebooks, videos, graded readers, flash cards, games, websites and mobile phone interactions” (Tomlinson, 2012, p. 143)

20.

(a)   is a practical undertaking involving the production, evaluation, adaptation and exploitation of materials intended to facilitate language acquisition and development