Issues in Materials Design
Issues in Materials Design
Issues in Materials Design
Attitudes to coursebooks
Metaphors
A coursebook is(fill in the metaphor)
Recipe, springboard, holy book, compass, survival kit,
supermarket, crutch, straitjacket
What does each metaphor here mean?
Which metaphor can you identify with?
What about your own metaphor of a coursebook?
Metaphors
Control, choice, support?
What do you think the teachers attitude toward
textbooks in Turkey?
Do we teach the book or revise it for our own teaching
style, learners styles etc?
Design
Specification of content, and of the roles of teachers,
learners, and materials
Procedure
Variety of pedagogical activities that can be drawn on
Content Analysis
Quantitative and qualitative analysis
In textbooks and materials the focus is on
Cultural content analysis
Linguistic content analysis
Language
Pragmatics
Genre