1. Materials Development for ELT
By professor M.E.d Yohana Aguirre Álvarez
www.yohanaaguirre.blogspot.com
2. Definition of “materials
development in ELT.”
• It is the art of integrate elements such as:
theory review, principles for effective
language teaching, creativity, students needs
and authenticity.
3. Why materials should be created
and customized?
• Materials:
• Facilitate the teaching-learning process
• Motivate
• Address the students’ needs (language and register)
• Give the opportunity to practice the language in a
contextualized and authentic way
4. Needs
The need to
communicate:
the main goal of
learning a
language is to
communicate.
The need for long-
term goals:
Learn a language is
a process.
5. The need for
authenticity:
is that appropriate
register?
Is it correct for
that situation?
The need for
student-
centeredness: Is
my language
teaching practice
taking to account
what my students
need?
6. 1. Expose the learners to language in
authentic use: in terms of enough
practice and variety.
Principles for materials
development.
7. 2. Help the learners to pay attention to
features of authentic input : In this
way the students develop language
awareness by themselves.
8. 3. Provide the learners with
opportunities to use the language to
achieve communicative purposes:
Prepare activities in which the
students can use the language rather
than practice it.
10. 5. Achieve impact in the sense that they
arouse and sustain the learner’s
curiosity and attention: Classes that
motivate English language learning.
11. 6. Stimulate intellectual, aesthetic
and emotional involvement: the
materials should encourage the
students to think and feel.
