Flashcards on English Language Teaching Material Design
English Language Teaching Material Design: A Complete Guide
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40 cards
Card 1
Question: What are non-authentic or adapted materials in language teaching?
Answer: Materials specifically written for teaching English as a foreign language, with language selected or graded to match learners' competence.
Card 2
Question: Why are adapted materials useful for children?
Answer: They are easy to handle for students, create a sense of success, and motivate continued learning by matching their level.
Card 3
Question: What is the main drawback of adapted materials?
Answer: Artificiality—the language use is not entirely real.
Card 4
Question: What are simulated authentic materials?
Answer: Materials that appear authentic but have controlled language to bridge learners toward real authentic materials.
Card 5
Question: How can using simulated authentic materials help learners?
Answer: They provide skills needed to eventually work with real, authentic materials.
Card 6
Question: How does involving pupils in material design benefit them?
Answer: It makes them feel useful and valued, fosters responsibility, boosts self-esteem, promotes cooperation, and develops creativity and skills.
Card 7
Question: Give examples of realia or authentic items pupils can bring for class.
Answer: Magazines, leaflets, maps, letters from penfriends, or other real-world items.
Card 8
Question: What creative products can pupils make that support language learning?
Answer: Drawings for flashcards, stories with pictures and sentences, books of songs/poems/recipes, board games, worksheets, crosswords, word searches, and au
Card 9
Question: How does designing materials help develop writing skills?
Answer: By creating worksheets, crosswords, word searches and written stories that can be photocopied and used in class.
Card 10
Question: Which digital tools are mentioned for students to create materials?
Answer: Canva (infographics), Genially (slides/presentations), Pixton (comics), MindMeister (mind maps).