Week 2 : Tutorial

As future language teachers, developing language learning materials will become as aspect of your teaching career. Design a diagram on the aspects influencing materials development using the provided key words.  You can use either all or some of the key words. Present and justify the completed diagram using informed literature.

There are many aspects that will affect material development whether it’s directly or indirectly. Different country will come out with their own educational aim and objective but most of them show similar resemblance to one another in term of nurturing the intellectuality in their country. As teachers, we have to take all of the related aspects into consideration. The country’s vision will affects the curriculum goal and objectives directly. Since the government is in charges of shaping one unified curriculum goal and objectives to be used by every school all over the nation, all of us have one aim to be accomplished.

On the other hand, every school also put certain benchmark to be achieved. With this come the school administration aims and objectives. The school also wishes to incorporate their own goal within the country’s curriculum aim.

In material development, Principles of Second Language Acquisition, principle of teaching and learning and Teacher’s belief and rational are important elements. The right formula which consist of the combination of  all three is necessary in order to come out with the most eligible type of material.

Teachers also have to apply the principle of teaching and learning that relevant to the objective of the entire teaching and learning process. But the principle used depends whether it is suitable to the current situation. Every aspect of the learners surrounding has to be taken into consideration before applying certain principle. So here, Teacher’s belief and rational have to be taken into consideration since not all of the principles are applicable at any situation. Principles of Second Language Acquisition also have to be deliberated since the language is taught as a second language

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Material development should also be able to assist the students when it comes to language quiz, test or assessment. The material used during teaching and learning process should be able to prepare the students to be tested. It also should be able to make sure that students can learn more effectively and in the same time draw their attention in believing that learning process can also be interesting and fun.

Parent’s goals can also be a driven force or motivation for the students to perform better. Parents who really gone into the trouble of making sure their children can perform better in school with definitely expect an excellent result. Nevertheless, it all comes down to the learners themselves. Whether they want to make used all the efforts that being put on them or let it being wasted just like that. What the learning material can do is provide an alternative for learners to absorb the knowledge and try to gain something from it. In the end, it’s how the learners attitude towards it that’s matters.