Materials Evaluation in Language Didactics - DLA Course

The aim of the course is to allow the students to learn about the guidelines for second/foreign language materials evaluation.

The students will be able to set guidelines for second/foreign language materials evaluation and carry out the task of materials evaluation based on set criteria.

Materials evaluation: Nature and need

<p>Materials evaluation methods: - macro vs micro evaluation - predictive vs retrospective evaluation - pre-use, in-use and post-use evaluations - external vs internal evaluation - impressionistic vs systematic evaluation</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Frameworks and checklists for materials evaluation</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Developing criteria for materials evaluation</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Assignment (40 %) and Final exam (60 %)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>10/20</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Candlin, C. &amp; Breen, M.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Evaluating and selecting EFL teaching material</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>English Language Teaching Journal</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>R. Johnson</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>D. Jolly &amp; R. Bolitho</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>What's underneath. An interactive view of materials development</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>J. McDonough, C. Shaw, and H. Masuhara</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>J. McDonough &amp; C. Shaw</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>general linguistics, psychology, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Concentration on the learner as learner and on the learner as communicator.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>psychology and psycholinguistics</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>general linguistics and sociolinguistics</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chapter 8: First steps with a video camera. Chapter 10: A note on video hardware.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The existence of the videodisc and the linking of video and microcomputers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The role of psycholinguistics in the building up of criteria for materials selection is small.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The nature of the book seems to dictate a rigorous teacher-centredness.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cunningsworth's book focuses more on how languages are taught than on how they get learnt.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Communication strategies should play a role in evaluating materials.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cunningsworth seems to be aware of how highly individual a process language learning is.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The culmination point in the book in relation to sociolinguistics is in chapter 9: 'Adaptation and Innovation.'</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cunningsworth sometimes gives the impression that spoken discourse consists of sentences instead of utterances.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The aim of the book is to help the teacher spot both the strength and weaknesses of coursebooks and to identify areas of language teaching which require the use of supplementary materials.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The role of communication strategies is beginning to play a role in materials writing.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Psycholinguistics is lacking in the glossary of EFL terms at the back of the book.</p> Signup and view all the answers