In the 1st part of the session we discussed the advantages and disadvantages of using a cousebook:
Advantages:
- Learners have a written record of what they've learned.
- Learners can look back or ahead.
- Generally written by people with experience and have also been piloted.
- Save us a lot of prep time.
- Often include useful appendices.
- Supplementary materials.
- Standard of presentation and quality of recordings.
- Pitched at the level of our learners and can usually be adapted to suit our learners' needs.
- Comprehensive range of topics.
- Sequenced so provide continuity, syllabus etc.
Disadvantages;
- May not be authentic, therefore contrived or artificial.
- Limited range of written practice.
- Learners' specific needs may not be met by the CB.
- Subject matter may be dull or unsuitable.
- Information may not be up-to-date.
- Might me lexically limiting.
- Ss may not like them.
- CBs can have a rigid, predictable structure.
USE YOUR CB SELECTIVELY!!!!!!!
The 2nd part of the session was about materials and activities widely used throughout the ELT World and the theoretical approaches or historical developments that contributed to their use:
- Cuisenaire rods;
The Silent Way.
- The use of authentic / semi-authentic reading and listening texts;
The Natural Approach.
- Literary Texts;
The Grammar-Translation.
- Drills, possibly in a language lab;
Audiolingualism.
- Newspapers;
The Natural Approach
- CBs containing lots of functional language in dialogues;
Communicative Approach.
- Dictation;
The Grammar-Translation.
- Background music;
Suggestopedia.
- Tape recorders for recording Ss contributions;
CLL
- Ss training diaries;
Communicative Approach
- Games;
Communicative Approach
- Computers;
CALL (Computer-Assisted Language Learning) emerged in the 80s.
- Video / DVD
Part of CBs resources from the 80s on.
- Resource Packs;
Have become popular since the mid-90s. Communicative approach from the Reward Series.
- Ss as a resource;
Humanistic Approaches.
- Visuals, OHP, whiteboard;
After the study of MI (Multiple Intelligences)
- Readers;
Communicative Approach
- Ts as a resouce;
Communicative Humanistic Approaches
It is not sufficient to justify the use of the above by saying that Ss like them. Views of language and language learning must be taken into consideration.
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