The second seminar looked at how when professional material developers create materials the process is often chaotic, ad hoc and spontaneous. In his state-of-the-art article, Tomlinson (2012) mentions two studies that looked at how writers actually write materials. Many reported relyingRead more…
A framework for materials creation
In Tomlinson’s Materials development in language teaching, Jolly and Bolitho (2011) provide teachers with a framework for writing materials. There are seven steps: Step 1: Identification of a need or problem: This could be discovered by carrying out a needsRead more…
Resist, surrender, engage
In the study material for this week, there were a couple of videos of presentations given by Nick Robinson and Laurie Harrison from ELTjam. They were about how ELT should respond to the EdTech revolution. EdTech can be described asRead more…
First Seminar
The first session of the teaching materials module asked the question: What are materials? According to Tomlinson (2012) materials are “anything that can be used to facilitate the learning of a language” such as coursebooks, videos, graded readers, flash cards, games,Read more…