What do you need to consider when you design material

2. Materials should achieve impact.
What is being taught should be perceived by learners as relevant and useful.
Materials should expose the learners to language in authentic use.
The learners’ attention should be drawn to linguistic features of the input.
Materials should provide the learners with opportunities to use the target language to
achieve communicative purposes.
Materials should take into account that learners differ in learning styles & attitudes.
Materials should not rely too much on controlled practice.
Materials should provide opportunities for outcome feedback.

3. Guideline 1:
Topics and
themes that
provide
meaningful use
for the target
language.
Experiences
& realities
of learners
Curriculum
Guideline 2:
Guidelines for Designing Effective English Teaching
Materials
have something
we want to
communicate
someone to
communicate with
some interest in
the outcome of the
communication

4. Guideline 3:
providing the necessary
metalanguage and
incorporating activities
which encourage learners
to assess their own
learning and language
development
Guideline 4: need to encourage learners to
take an analytical approach to
the language in front of and
around them, and to form and
test their own hypotheses about
how language works

5. Guideline 5:
Guideline 6:
• ELT materials should offer
opportunities for integrated
language use.
• ELT materials should be
authentic.
TEXT &TASK

6. Guideline 7:
Guideline 8:
Physical appearance
User-friendliness
Durability
Ability to reproduced

7. Guideline 9:
Guideline 10:
flexibility is also possible in approach,
level, methodology, logistics,
technology, teaching style, evaluation
procedures and expected outcomes.
instructions need to be effective, they
should be written in language that is
appropriate for the target learners