THEME 3-4 Design of English Teaching Resources by ADRIANA GIANELLA DIAZ IBARRA

Purpose :

agdiaz71 — 2023-05-28 22:49:41 UTC

Purpose of developing learners´ skills and behavior.
People use various method, knowledge and instruments as a means toimprove the outcome of the performed tasks (Cotterill, 2018).

Benefits:

kadiaz4 — 2023-05-30 02:07:25 UTC

- Authentic materials help to bring outside world to the classroom.
- They also give the learners the much needed exposure to the language being learned.
- They also have positive effect on learners' motivation, by making the lessons less monotonous and more fun.
- Authentic materials provide authentic cultural information, too.
- Besides, they relate more closely to learners' need and support a more creative approach to teaching.

agdiaz71 — 2023-05-30 21:06:54 UTC

To motivate learners to be interested in the subject
To be a bridge with the real life
To develop learners ‘language skills
To break up the monotony
To promote critical and creative thinking

Categories of Teaching Materials

agdiaz71 — 2023-05-30 21:18:53 UTC

Audio: Audio has a positive effect on brain development, it is greatly helpful for your students to learn attentively. Help a lot in learning languages where communication and listening are important.
Visual: Here visual aids refer to presentation slides, pictures, etc. Visual aids help students in grabbing concepts easily, and they are clearer and more understandable than textbooks.
Audiovisual: Audio-visual aids involve the usage of videos, films, documentaries, etc., to enhance the process of teaching

Advantages

lmdavila2 — 2023-06-01 13:43:10 UTC

-The materials requested by teachers can be geared to the culture, language, traditions or values of the group they will be teaching.
-Teachers know the personal needs of each student in the class, and provide them with appropriate materials that give them the opportunity to develop their language skills.
-Developing materials can help develop expertise among staff, giving them a greater understanding of the characteristics of effective materials.

Disadvantages

lmdavila2 — 2023-06-01 13:50:24 UTC

-There are families where they do not have the resources to buy materials for their children.
-Materials designed by teachers may not be of the same quality as materials designed by professionals.
-To prepare teachers for materials writing projects, adequate training is necessary. Materials writing is a specialized skill and not all teachers area capable of writing good materials.

Teachers usually improvise around their teaching materials, going back and forth between book-based inputs, which makes the learning experience unique even though in texts it is always the same (Richards,2016).

lmdavila2 — 2023-06-01 13:58:55 UTC

tfrojas — 2023-06-01 23:38:14 UTC

Communication is one of the most important skills to work on in a child as this will help him improve speech and language in the future. For this, some applications to improve your communication are:

The sounding out machine

tfrojas — 2023-06-01 23:46:19 UTC

It is an application that helps children learn difficult words and teach how to say and apply them. It also works for young people who have problems with coding.

Araword

tfrojas — 2023-06-01 23:53:04 UTC

Araword allows children to work on language through writing and images, since when writing a word a related image will appear that will allow sentences to be associated with the context that surrounds them.

2023-06-02 19:24:13 UTC

The use of both visual and auditory didactic material in English classes is very important since this subject is somewhat difficult for non-native students, the creation of support material is beneficial for both teachers and students.

It allows students a better reception of information, understanding of concepts, socialization of content and a higher level of participation in the classroom.

For Prats (1997:85), the most suitable curricular material is the one that "facilitates the learning of intellectual abilities, the mastery of the techniques used in the disciplines and the proposition of prototypes that simulate the construction of knowledge (methodology) of the different you know”.

2023-06-02 19:29:35 UTC

Designing material for English classes helps the teacher to strengthen their knowledge, to be more creative and to exploit their full potential, in addition it must be taken into account that the didactic material serves to support the development of teaching programs representing a valuable methodology. playful through which students have spaces for active participation both with the teacher and with their classmates.

2023-06-02 19:56:15 UTC