By Prof. Licda.Cindy Gutiérrez Navarro
According to author Brian Tomlinson (1998), in his article "Principles of Effective Materials Development", teachers must take into account certain principles for material creation to guide themselves in their goal of teaching English to their students in their everyday labor. Such principles have to do especially with the role students have in the classroom. Namely, teachers must consider their pupils´cultural background, needs and interests because depending on their identification with the material used in class, their learning, development and application of the language will become more spontaneous, authentic and of course more accurate and fluent.As a conclusion, it is a fact that the materials we, as teachers create every day for giving our English classes to our students, play such an important role in their learning and use of the language that sometimes we cannot even measure the positive effects they have on them.
Hi, Cindy!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations for having successfully created your own ELT educational blog. Without a doubt, many other fellow ELT professionals will benefit from following your blog. As language teachers, we should be aware of important aspects such as customizing and personalizing materials to be developed. Curricular contextualization is a must. Exposing students to language in authentic use, as the Brian Tomlinson pointed out, will facilitate the learning and teaching process.