Decision in Materials Design

Decision in Materials Design

            Decision in Material Design concerns with:

1. Choosing Input and Sources

Input refers to anything that initiates the learning process and that students response to in someway in using the materials.

Sources refer to things that used in teaching and learning process. For example magazine, book, and television.

The following is an example of input questions of speaking materials:

Ø  What will the source of speaking activities be?

Ø  Will dialogues recording text, topics, situation, and so on be used, and how will these be selected?

Often writers start with resources taken from magazine, books, etc.

2. Selecting Exercise Types

One of the most decisions in writing is deciding on the types of exercises that will be used. The issue is how to create exercises that engage learners in the use of skill and processes related to specific language teaching objectives.

            Grelle (1981) contains an extensive taxonomy of exercises for teaching reading skills. Under the category “understanding meaning” she illustrates exercises of the following text:

Ø  Involving a non-linguistic response to the text

ü  ordering a sequence of pictures

ü  comparing text and pictures

ü  matching

ü  using illustrations

ü  completing a document

ü  napping it out

ü  using the information in a text

ü  jigsaw reading

Ø  involving a linguistic responses to the text

ü  re-organizing the information: reordering event

ü  re-organizing the information: using grids

ü  comparing several text

ü  completing a document

ü  question types

ü  study skill: summarizing

ü  study skill: note taking