Material design

Material design is...

• The design of teaching materials requires the student teachers to take a set of decisions, make choices and explain the reasons for them.

• Instructional materials make learning more interesting, practical, realistic and appealing.

• This practice will grant them some autonomy (in terms of taking responsibility for decision-making),

ESP materials design they offer consists of four elements:

• input, content, language and homework

• input, content, language and task.

• input, context , language and task.

• input, content, task.

The input can be..

• gives students a chance to take the language apart, study it carefully and put it back together.

• considered as an end in itself but as a means of conveying information.

• any piece of communication data (text, video, dialogue, etc.)

• communicative and give students a chance to use the content and language knowledge they have built up.

The content focus reminds that..

• can be any piece of communication data (text, video, dialogue, etc.)

• gives students a chance to take the language apart, study it carefully and put it back together.

• should be communicative and give students a chance to use the content and language knowledge they have built up.

• language should not be considered as an end in itself but as a means of conveying information. The non-linguistic content should generate communication in the classroom.

The task should be...

• communicative and give students a chance to use the content and language knowledge they have built up.

• gives students a chance to take the language apart, study it carefully and put it back together.

• can be any piece of communication data (text, video, dialogue, etc.)

• focus reminds that language should not be considered as an end in itself but as a means of conveying information.

The language focus gives students a chance to take..

• language should not be considered as an end in itself but as a means of conveying information.

• the language apart, study it carefully and put it back together.

• should be communicative and give students a chance to use the content and language knowledge they have built up.

By learning to create materials teachers reduce their..

• motivation to teach

• dependency on published materials and develop professionally.

• to learn new materials for teaching.

Benefits of designing material?