Lesson Plan

Dear students,


Can you help me to organize a lesson plan; it is up to you to design the model you wanna.

Sincerely,

Maura Díaz

Language Teaching Materials and the very big Picture

Dear students,


Here you find the second reading; please try to design a mind map very interactive.

http://1drv.ms/1mVfYnT

Good week, see you next Friday in case you can´t come; do not worry you will support your design next Monday March 9th in the room 312 as it was today.


Sincerely yours,

Maura Díaz

State of the Art- Materials Development for Language Learning and Teaching

Dear students,

In the following link you will find an interesting article focused on the State of the Art of Materials Development for Language Learning and Teaching by Tomlinson, Brian.

http://1drv.ms/1qSuT8c

I hope you can infer the main ideas in  order to design a nice summary using exam time tool, remember to take care when doing because it changes your version order.


Sincerely,

Maura Díaz

Getting to the Heart of Materials Development

Dear students,

Taking into account the slides presentation about Materiasl Development and using the exam time  tool it is time to create a quiz (maximun and minimun 5 questions)

http://1drv.ms/1z8qoqD

Please attach your links to this page.

Sincerely yours,


 Maura Díaz

Selecting Materials- Teacher's Role

Dear teacher-students,

Here you can find the questions we will be discussing in tomorow's class taking into account the books you will bring.

NAME_________________________________DATE_______CODE_____

SELECTING MATERIALS. Teacher’s role.

Here is a checklist of questions to ask when selecting course books.

1-    What sort of approach does the book appear to adopt?

2-    Does one approach predominate? Which? Support your answer.

3-    How are new teaching points graded?

4-    Is the organization of the course book linear or cyclical?

5-    Are there any special pages of units for revision, self testing or reference?

6-    What are the art work and layout like? Are they attractive? Are they useful or only decorative?

7-    Does the book induce examples of authentic language and material?

8-    Does the book include workbooks, tests, tapes, videos, etc…?

9-    Is the book easy to follow? Does it contain an index?

10-                      Does the material have a specific cultural setting or is it non culture –specific?

11-                      Can you spot any notable omissions? Will you have to supplement the book in any way?

12-                      How is each unit titled? Is it clear? Functional?

13-                      How is new language presented?

14-                      Does the presentation of new activities force the teacher to follow the unit sequence of the book?

15-                      How new language is presented in each unit? Is it appropriate for your children?

16-                      What kind of practice activities are there? Are they motivating and meaningful?

17-                      How much variety of activities is there?

18-                      How is the vocabulary presented?

19-                      Is there an opportunity for reviewing at the end of each unit?

20-                       How are the different skills treated? Are they integrated?

Maura Imelda Día

M.A in applied linguistics

Getting to the heart of language

Dear students,

Based on the following presentation can you design some flascards summarizing the topic.

http://1drv.ms/1z8qoqD

Good luck,

Maura Diaz

Materials Development Presentation

Dear students,

Here is the general presentation for clarifying the content o f our class this semester; I hope you enjoy it a lot.