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There are three categories of Teaching materials:

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There are three categories of Teaching materials:

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Audio. - Learning through listening (radio, broadcast).

Visual. - Learning through doing something (posters, charts, flash cards, etc).

Audiovisual: Learning through both, audio and visual aids (included ICT)

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Kylecharizanis (2023) say that use technology in the teaching-learning process is a great benefit for both teachers and students; it permits the improvement of the educational process and the development of students’ learning skills.
Some apps are:
WOOCLAP: With this online collaboration tool, students can interact in real time, whether they are in the classroom or not, through quizzes created by the teacher.
QUIZEZZ: Is a free web/app that allows you to create online quizzes in a fun and playful way, which students can answer in three different ways: In a live game
live game, as homework, or individually.
Quizizz allows teachers to promote spaces to assess students' learning, to provide immediate feedback to the answers given by the students, and to gamify the teaching and learning processes generated in a course.
MONDLY: Uses daily lesson plans and short lessons arranged by topics; aims to help you hit the ground running by having you memorize keywords right off the bat.

The Mondly app features audio by native speakers, voice recognition for speaking practice, a dictionary, a verb conjugation tool and more.
FLUENTU: Features authentic media clips with interactive subtitles that explain the meaning of each word.

FluentU teaches you a language through authentic videos that native speakers actually watch, these include movie trailers, news segments and scenes from popular TV series—all with interactive subtitles to aid your understanding.

BABBEL: Babbel aims to improve your confidence and comprehension through interactive courses for beginning through advanced students.

These courses offer exercises for reading, writing, listening and speaking, ensuring a well-rounded language education.

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Teaching Resources Implications
Teaching English as a foreign language is a great challenge for non-native speaker educators. Teachers need rigorous training and a lot of practice work that requires persistent efforts.

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Lets teachers create their own flashcards and share them with students, who can then practice the vocabulary games, also, the teachers can search for previously made flashcards that other teachers have uploaded or ask students to create their own.

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Teaching materials form an important part of most English teaching programmers. From textbooks, videotapes and pictures to the Internet, teachers rely heavily on a diverse range of materials to support their teaching and their students’ learning. However, despite the current rich array of English language teaching materials commercially available, many teachers continue to produce their own materials for classroom use (Howard & Major, 2004).

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Advantages

Relevance: Creating materials directly relevant to the needs of students and the institution allows for the inclusion of local content, issues, and concerns. This builds a better connection with students and addresses specific educational requirements.

Knowledge Development: Internal development of materials helps staff members gain experience in understanding the characteristics of effective educational resources.

Reputation: Institutionally prepared materials contribute to the reputation of the institution by showing its dedication to providing personalized resources for its students. This demonstrates a commitment to quality education and can have a positive impact on the institution's reputation.

Flexibility: In-house produced materials offer greater flexibility compared to commercially available textbooks.

Disadvantages

Cost: The creation of high-quality materials requires time and the allocation of sufficient personnel resources.

Quality: Teacher-produced materials may not achieve the same level of design and production quality as commercially available materials.

Training: Adequate training is necessary to prepare teachers for material writing projects. Developing instructional materials is a specialized skill, and not all teachers possess the ability to create high-quality materials.

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The most significant component of instructional materials in the teaching and learning process is that they build your abilities and capacity to improve. Teachers provide access to information beyond traditional classroom materials, support differentiated instruction, and can create dynamic and interactive learning environments that motivate students, facilitate their understanding, and promote the acquisition of knowledge and skills in meaningful and relevant ways.

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Workin with technology and incorporating learning apps into your classes can effectively add new levels to your language teaching; so, Classdojo is an innovative app that allows you to set goals for your students and monitor their progress in real time, as well as reward them for any achievements they’ve made.

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Didactic material is considered one of the most useful tools to simplify the academic process. It is used to connect teachers and students. It is a bridge between teaching, learning and real life because they replace the real world.
Learning objectives so that language skills can be constantly developed. Among the most important characteristics in didactic materials are:
• Help to comprehend and comprehend difficult ideas and concepts
• Help develop student interest
• Make students active
• Provide reinforcement for better learning.

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AUTHENTIC MATERIALS FOR TEACHING ENGLISH

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One of the main advantages of using resources is that they give children opportunities to get hands-on with their learning. Be it with games, colouring pages or worksheets, resources help to break up a lesson and engage children through small tasks.

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Authentic materials provide real-life examples of language used in everyday situations.

Help prepare learners for the ‘real’ world of communication.

Guide learners toward the language they need for their particular context.

Motivate learners to communicate, because they help make communication ‘real’.

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English Teaching Talks - Managing Resources. Part 2: What is a resource?

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English Teaching Talks - Managing Resources. Part 2: What is a resource?

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Teaching materials have the specific purpose of developing learners´ skills and behavior. Teachers´ main objective is to help students being independent in their learning process, so instructors have to create or select the most appropriate resources to suit their learners ‘preferences. (Nuñez & Téllez, 2009).

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English Teaching Talks - Managing Resources. Part 2: What is a resource?

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Teaching materials come in many shapes and sizes, but they all have in common the ability to support learning. The purpose and importance of teaching and learning materials is to make lessons interesting, learning easy and enable teachers to easily express concepts (OpenLearnCreate, 2020).

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Main purpose of the teaching materials is:

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Main purpose of the teaching materials is:

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To motivate learners to be interested in the subject

To demonstrate applicability

To save time and energy for both teachers and students

To be a bridge with the real life

To develop learners ‘language skills

To break up the monotony

To promote critical and creative thinking

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Essential characteristics of teaching materials.

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Essential characteristics of teaching materials.

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Analyzing and selecting teaching materials or resources is a great compromise for teachers. Teachers should select and used materials in an appropriate way, keeping in mind some essential characteristics.

They not only help learners to increase knowledge but also makes their learning permanent

They must improve learners’ language skills

They should help to achieve the learning objectives of the class

They should develop students interest and curiosity

They should promote better understanding and comprehension of difficult ideas

They should make students active and participative

They should be understandable and effective

They should increase students’ vocabulary

They should make classroom lively and colorful

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There are three categories of Teaching materials

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There are three categories of Teaching materials

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Audio: Audio refers to the use of sound as a medium for learning. It involves the process of acquiring knowledge and skills by actively listening to audio recordings, such as lectures, podcasts, or radio broadcasts.
Visual: Visual learning involves the use of visual aids and materials to support learning. This includes the use of posters, charts, diagrams, and worksheets that present information in a visual format.
Audiovisual learning combines auditory and visual elements. It allows learners to connect auditory and visual information, reinforcing concepts and facilitating retention. Integrating visual and audio elements into learning materials can improve comprehension and information processing.

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"When teaching valuable new language skills, it is essential that language teaching materials also teach your students."

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This video explains basic concept associated with Teaching-learning resources as well as role of learners and their environment as resource.

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Teaching -Learning Resources (Learners and Their environment)

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"Authentic materials, in addition to facilitating the introduction of (new) lexical structures, morphosyntactic structures and linguistic functions, have a positive effect on learners' interest and motivation, leading to their involvement and participation in different activities."

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Words of Wonders:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fugo.wow

FotoQuiz:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.asmolgam.easypics

CodyCross:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fanatee.cody

4 fotos 1 palabra:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.lotum.whatsinthefoto.es

Logopedia 1:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pmqsoftware.logopedia.es1

Aplasta palabras:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fingerlab.block.wordgame

Duolingo:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.duolingo&hl=es_419&gl=US

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Presentación Proyecto Universitario profesional con fotografía en color blanco y azul

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English Teaching Talks - Managing Resources. Part 4: What is a good resource?