ELT MATERIAL

I mentioned in Part 1 of my blog  examples of adaptation and supplementation of teaching materials for the IB coursebook. The focus of this blog is to explain why I had to adapt the coursebook materials and what I had to consider for during this process; for example learner’s needs and contextual factors. In my … Continue reading Adapting coursebook for Spanish IB Diploma Part 2

During this course we studied current research exploring how to evaluate teaching materials for Second Language Teaching (SLT), as well as how to evaluate our own materials. In this blog I will review the evaluation on my worksheet design called Interactive worksheet AS, targeted to private students, who are preparing for their Spanish A Level … Continue reading Worksheet Designs and Task Evaluation

In a recent  blog I have produced a lesson plan with a task called Video telling- Narrar el video. In this blog I will provide more information about the process of material production and the principles that I have used to evaluate my teaching materials. This chosen principles are relevant for my practice, some of them … Continue reading Sound and videos in Mobile devices for Language Learning (2)

21st Century education in Second Language Teaching (SLT) has witnessed an unprecedented upgrade of cutting edge technology in language classrooms. Devices like IWB, iPad iPad Pro, iPad Air 2 and  Iphones, are effective tools for research in schools. Navigating  the internet with a portable handset has great potential for teaching and learning. A recent study … Continue reading Sound & Vision using Innovative Technology for Second Language Teaching. Part1

In past seminars we had Teresa Clementon, who talked about her coursebook the English Unlimited B1+ Intermediate. Later in the week, we prepared a presentation in a group to analyse visuals in ELT coursebooks for Thursday 10th March. I worked with Lucinda and Sherifah, and as we had assessed different visuals from the same book … Continue reading The power of Visuals in coursebooks

A problem when adapting coursebooks for Second Language Teaching (SLT) Bosompem (2014:105) states that “adapting teaching materials is about effecting changes to make them suitable for learners and their needs.” In this blog I will talk about adapting teaching materials. Reflecting on what I have been learning in the module TE714. In practice, for material … Continue reading Adapting coursebook for Spanish IB Diploma Part 1

English Unlimited B1+ Intermediate Course book Rea, D. & Clementon, T. with Tilbury & Hendra, A. (2011) Self-study Pack Baigent, M. & Robinson, N. Teacher’s Pack Clementon, T. & Gray, L. & Smith, H. Collaborative work I found several intrinsic difficulties in creating a framework for language book evaluation (titles listed above). For the course … Continue reading Framework for language book evaluation

The seminar for Teaching Materials TE714 on Monday the 18th February was about Principles and Frameworks for material design. This session was based on our reading list and our discussion was in reference to the reading of Materials Development in Language Teaching. Our course tutor gave us more than 30 statements of design principles for … Continue reading Principles and Frameworks for material design

My name is Adriana Paez de Blair, currently studying MA TESOL at Brighton University. I have to admit that a task of writing a blog is a new learning curve for me, especially on the use of technology. This is a concern but at the same time a challenging experience in learning. For that reason, … Continue reading First task writing a Blog on Teaching Materials