MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT Materials is “anything that can be used to facilitate the learning of a lan...

1. Materials should help learners to develop confidence

2. What is being taught should be perceived by learners as relevant and useful

3. Materials should require and facilitate learner self-investment

4. Materials should help learners to feel at ease

5. Learners must be ready to acquire the points being taught

6. Materials should achieve impact

7. Materials should expose the learners to language in authentic use

8. The learners' attention should be drawn to linguistic features of the input

9. Materials should provide opportunities for outcome feedback

10. Materials should take into account that learners differ in affective attitudes

11. Materials should take into account that the positive effects of instruction are usually delayed

12. Materials should not rely too much on controlled practice

13. Materials should maximise learning potential by encouraging intellectual, aesthetic and emotional involvement which stimulates both right and left brain activities

14. Materials should permit a silent period at the beginning of instruction

15. Materials should take into account that learners differ in learning styles

16. Materials should provide the learners with opportunities to use the target language to achieve communicative purposes