The document discusses guidelines for designing effective teaching materials. It notes that materials should stimulate learners, meet their needs, provide meaningful activities, and examples of language use. When designing materials, teachers should consider learner needs, available resources, their own competence, and the curriculum. Good materials arouse interest, involve learners, foster autonomy, and promote language use. Overall, the document provides a framework to help teachers create materials that enhance learning.

1. Designing Materials
for Teacher Autonomy

2. Materials can be anything in linguistic, visual,
auditory and kinesthetic forms that are used to
facilitate the teaching and learning process.

3. Why is it important
designing materials?
•Designing materials play a central role
in teaching and learning;
•It helps teachers to boost their
confidence as well as being a positive
and empowering experience of teacher
autonomy.
• They provide opportunities for
teachers to explore and learn new
information which takes shape in the
form of tasks.

4. The role of materials
•A source of activities for learners
practice and communicative interaction.
•A reference source for learners on
grammar, vocabulary and
pronunciation.
•A support for less experienced teachers.
•A source of stimulation and ideas for
classroom activities

5. Questions to ask when designing
materials
•Will the materials stimulate and
motivate the students?
•To what extend does the material
match the stated learning objectives
and your learning objectives?
•To what extent will the materials
support the learning process?

6. Good and effective teaching materials
should:
 Arouse and keep
learners´ interest and
attention.
Meet the learners needs
and background.
Provide examples of
language use.
Provide meaningful
activities.
Provide opportunities
for authentic learning
use.

7.  Achieve
impact
 Help learners
to develop
confidence
Provide
relevant and
useful content
Take into account
that the learners have
different learning styles
 Encourage learners
involvement

8. Foster learning autonomy.
 Engage learners effectively and cognitively.
Promote use of language.
Provide opportunities for outcome feedback.
Provide the learners with opportunities to
achieve communicative purpose.

9. Materials should be designed with
these objectives
● Motivating students
to learn vocabulary.
● Training students to
use the language
skills in various
situations.
● Motivating students to
interact with the learning
materials and discuss
topics with teachers.
● Encouraging students
to involve themselves in
varied tasks.

10. Factors to Consider When
Designing Materials
• Learner needs
Any consideration to design
materials must begin with
students´ needs.

11. • Resources and facilities
Teachers must be realistic
about what they can achieve in
terms of materials design and
production within the limitations
of available resources and
facilities.

12. • Personal Confidence and Competence
This will be influenced by
the teacher’s level of
teaching experience and
his or her perceived
creativity or artistic skills
and overall understanding
of principles of materials
design and production.

13. • The curriculum and the context
These are variables that will significantly impact
in desicions about materials; they define the
content, skills and values to be taught.

14. Guidelines for
Designing
Effective
English
Teaching
Materials
1. English teaching
materials should be
contextualised
Materials should be
contextualized to the
curriculum they are intended
to address and also
contextualised to the
experiences, realities and first
language of the learners.

15. 2. Materials should stimulate
interaction.
Language teaching
materials should provide
situations where learners
need to interact with each
other in a manner that
reflects the type of
interactions they will
engage in outside of the
classroom

16. 3.English language teaching materials should
encourage learners to develop learning skills and
strategies.
It is important to provide
learners with the
confidence to persist in
their attempts to find
solutions when they have
difficulties in
communicating.

17. 4.English language teaching materials should
offer opportunities for integrated language use.
Materials should
give learners
opportunities to
integrate all the
language skills in
an authentic
manner and to
become competent.

18. It assesses the student’s ability to efficiently and
effectively use of their knowledge and skills to do a
task.
5. English
language teaching
materials should
be authentic.

19. 6. English language teaching materials should be
attractive
Criteria for evaluating
English language teaching
materials and course books
frequently include reference
to the ‘look’ and the ‘feel’ of
the product.
-Physical appearance
-Durability
-Ability to be reproduced.

20. 7. English language teaching materials should
have appropriate instructions.
Excellent materials fail in
their “pedagogical
realization” because of a
lack of clarity in their
instructions.
For instructions to be
effective, they should be
written in language that is
appropriate for the target
learners, and the use of
the correct metalanguage
can assist with making
instructions more concise
and efficient.

21. Examples of some materials that you
can design.
Flashcards

22. Magazine pictures

23. Wall chart

24. Posters

25. Newspaper Articles

26. Advantages of designing materials
Positive effect on learner motivation
Exposure to real language
 Encourage more teacher autonomy
It is empowering
It is memorable
It is creative
It encourages critical evaluation of teaching materials.
Personalisation

27. Disadvantages of designing
materials
It takes to much time.
It is not always possible to ensure
that everyone is involved.
Organization (materials may lack
overall coherence and clear
progression)
Quality (they may contain errors,
be poorly constructed and lack of
durability)