Materials selection, adaptation, or writing is an important part of ESP teaching that represents the practical application of effective course development. The choice of materials has a major impact on what students learn in terms of vocabulary, language structures, functions, and the methods and techniques used for learning. Good materials contain interesting texts and activities, opportunities for students to use their thinking and skills, models of correct language use, simpler representations of language, and reflect the nature of the learning task.

2. MATERIAL DESIGN

3. Outline
 Definition
 How Important It Is
 Materials Selection
 Defining Objectives
 A Materials Design Model

4. A large amount of the ESP teacher’s
time may well be taken up in writing
materials.

5. HOW IMPORTANT IT IS…
 Materials selection, adaptation, or writing is an important area
in ESP teaching,
 representing a practical result of effective course development
and providing students with materials
 that will prepare them with the knowledge they will need in their
future life.

6. Materials selection
As Ellis and Johnson (1994: 115) emphasize, the choice of
materials has a major impact on what happens in the course. This
impact is demonstrated on the following three levels:
 - It “determines what kind of language the learners will be exposed
to and, as a consequence, the substance of what they will learn in
terms of vocabulary, structures, and functions”;
 - It “has implications for the methods and techniques by which the
learners will learn”;
 - Last, “the subject of or content of the materials is an essential
component of the package from the point of view of relevance and
motivation”.

7. Materials are a visible product of activity,
regardless of whether such activity is useful or
even necessary
The process of materials writing may help
to make teachers more aware of what is
involved in teaching and learning

8. Defining
objectives
Provide a
stimulus to
learning
Good materials
contain:
• Interesting texts
•Enjoyable activities
•Opportunities to use
learners’ thinking and
skills
Provide models of correct
and appropriate language
use
Provide simpler
ways of language
Embody a view of the
nature of language &
learning
Reflect the nature
of the learning task
Have a very useful
function

9. A MATERIALS DESIGN MODEL
INPUT
CONTENT LANGUAGE
TASK

10. Thank you 