"Classification of Language Teaching Material" by Lic. Karla Morales Gallegos

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Teaching/learning materials (TLM), also known as instructional materials, are any collection of materials including animate and inanimate objects and human and non-human resources that a teacher may use in teaching and learning situations to help achieve desired learning objectives

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There are various types of instructional materials that educators can use to enhance their teaching practices.

The use of effective instructional materials can have a significant impact on both teaching and learning outcomes. For educators, well-chosen materials can streamline lesson planning, provide structure and guidance, and offer support in delivering content effectively. By incorporating a variety of instructional materials into their teaching practices, educators can create engaging and dynamic learning experiences that cater to the diverse needs of their students.

For students, high-quality instructional materials can make learning more engaging, interactive, and meaningful. Visual aids and multimedia presentations can help students visualize abstract concepts, while hands-on manipulatives can promote active learning and deeper understanding. By using a combination of traditional and digital resources, educators can create a rich learning environment that fosters creativity, critical thinking, and academic success.

Authentic Material

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The “authentic” in authentic materials simply means that the text, video, or audio material has not been created with English language teaching in mind.

Instead, the learning content comes from a genuine source like a news outlet, podcast, or video platform. The teacher develops questions, activities or projects around the authentic material, graded to the level of their students.

For example:

Worksheets
Newspapers
Pictures
Text books
Video Recording

Authentic and Non-Authentic Material

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Using Authentic Material

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Materials produced or Teacher-Made

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Teacher-Made makes it easy to edit existing teaching materials and handouts you already have for different style learners. You can omit, add, or even change portions of PDFs to fit various learning styles and needs. Allow students to answer using different tools and methods.

For example:

Tests or Quizzes
Worksheets online
FlashCard
Classroom Activities

In this type of teaching material the students have the opportunity to develop their skills such as: writing, speaking, listening and grammar vocabulary.

Example of teacher-made tests for grammatical structure practice

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Examples of teacher-made flashcards for vocabulary practice.

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With this flashcards material the student is able to ask a class material to another classmate in English and practice speaking and vocabulary skills at the same time.

Student-Generated Materials

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Student-generated learning materials, as the term itself implies, ask students to provide objects that other students can use in their own learning. These objects (lessons, videos, questions, summaries) can become as important to the class as the teacher's own work.

Student-generated learning materials represent a unique area of student work, and provide strong evidence of how responsibility for learning can be taken over by a community of learners.

Examples reveal that students build directly on prior knowledge and develop independence, self-reliance, expertise, ownership, empowerment, inclusiveness and metacognition, and transfer their understanding to new and potentially unfamiliar content.

Student Generated Materials Increase Engagement and Adaptability

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Adapted Material

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It focuses on adapting authentic materials to fit students’ levels and offers several factors to consider when making those adaptations.

In this type of material the teacher adapts authentic materials for the practice and development of different skills, for example, a movie, in which you can acquire vocabulary, learn grammatical structures, tenses and at the same time practice listening.

Activities with adapted material

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With this activities you need to watch a movie in English and then you are going to answer some questions about it.

The professor selects movies according to the students' level of English.

Instructional Materials

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Karla del Carmen Morales Gallegos.

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