Adapting materials involves matching students' needs and ensuring congruence between teaching situations and content. When adapting, factors like external characteristics, teaching situations, chapters, content, organization, and consistency must be considered. Techniques for adapting include personalizing, individualizing, localizing, adding, deleting, modifying, simplifying, and re-ordering content. Adapting can be applied to language practice, texts, skills, and classroom management.

1. Adapting materials
Taken from McDonough, J & Shaw, C. (2003) adapted by Agudelo, J.,
Cardona, D., Velasquez, A.

2. Students needs
Match
•Why do we adapt?
Congruence
•What do we adapt?

3. Factors to consider when adapating
material.
External
Characteristics
Teaching situations
Chapters
internal
content
organization
consistency

4. Procedures
Personalize Individualize
localize

5. Techniques
How
Adding
Deleting
Modifying
simplifying
Re-ordering

6. Applied to content areas
Language
practice
texts
skills
Classroom
management