Curriculum and Material Development

1. Material
development
Ahmad Muhajir

2. TABLE OF CONTENTS
01 02 03 04
Defenition of
materials
development?
Defenition of
materials?
Issues in
materials
development
Who should
develop the
materials?
05
Current trends
in materials
development
06
future of
materials
development

3. Materials development is both a field
of study and a practical undertaking.
What is materials development?

4. What are materials?
Materials include anything which
can be used to facilitate the learning
of a language.

5. linguistic visual auditory
kinesthetic Print Out live
performance
or display
cassette, CD-
RoM, DVD
Internet instructional,
experiential,
elicitative or
exploratory
Etc…….

6. needs and wants
of the learners
should drive the
materials
professional
materials writers
and Teacher
in an ad-hoc,
impressionistic
way.
there are many
debate about
using authentic
text
What are the issues in
materials development?
What should
drive
materials?
How should
materials be
developed?
How should
materials be
evaluated?
Should texts
be authentic?

7.  Authentic texts
can provide
exposure to
language as it is
typically used.
 motivating effect
on learners
 they can lead to
faulty learning.
 they deny the
learners
opportunities for
informal learning
and the
development of
self-esteem.
 without authentic
text, they help the
learners by
focusing their
attention on the
target feature,
simplification and
contrivance can
facilitate learning.
Authentic text

8. Other Issues :
● benefits
administrators
and teachers
without fulfill for
the needs and
wants of learners
● course book is a
cost effective
way
Do learners need a course
book?
● most teachers continue
to use commercially
published materials
Do learners need published
material at all?
● learners should be
provided with many more
opportunities to acquire
language informally from
exposure to language in
use.
Should materials
be learning or
acquisition
focused?
● to make sure that
they do not give
offence or cause
embarrassment.
Should published
materials be
censored?

9. Other Issues :
● Course book
writers are much
more influenced
by what is
conventional
practice than by
theories of
language
practice or even
by classroom
research
Should materials be
driven by theory or
practice?
● Most published materials
are inevitably driven by
perceived market needs
Should materials be driven
by syllabus needs, learner
needs or market needs?
● It is important to provide
learners with what they
expect or else risk
rejection of the materials.
Should materials
cater for learner
expectations or try
to change them?
● to help the learners to
acquire language and that
they are not responsible
for their educational
development.
● not only are personal and
educational development
main objectives of any
language course but that
the achievement of these
objectives actually
facilitates the acquisition
of language too.
Should materials aim
for language
development only or
also aim for personal
and educational
development?
Should materials aim to
contribute to teacher
development as well as
language learning?
● published materials
should aim to help
teachers to develop

10. Professional materials writers and The Teacher.
Who should develop the
materials?

11. What are the current trends in
materials development?
Material need to
discoveries
02
more materials making
use of corpus
03
produce reader
series
04
relationship between
students and learning
process
01
Positive trend

12. What are the current trends in
materials development?
increase that link with affective
engagement of learners
06
increasing in using
internet
07
Movement of
grammar
08
increase in producing
their relevant local
material
05

13. What are the current trends in
materials development?
● -there is some material which is need by students to make discoveries by themselves
from sample of language in use.
02
Saturn is the
ringed one
03
Despite being red,
Mars is cold
04
Venus has a
beautiful name
01

14. What are the current trends in
materials development?
‘central place of grammar in the
language curriculum’
02
Prominence between listening and
speaking than reading and writing.
03
assumption that the learners
do not get something
04
ignored or sometimes
abused in using literature
in course book
01
Negative Trends

15. What are the current trends in
materials development?
obeying student learning style
06
● tendency to underestimate learners
linguistically, intellectually and
emotionally
07
course books still focus on English
as used by native speakers
05

16. What is the Future Material
Development?
Personalization and localization of
aterial in greater way
Flexibility and
creativity of material
Opportinities
for learners
Multicultural
perspective and
awarness
More affectively
engaging content
Nmore respect
for learner

17. THANKS!