The discipline of materials development
What is CMC ?
Computer-Mediated Communication
What is corpus?
Collection of written texts
What is one common argument for the use of authentic materials?
Textbooks do not always offer a realistic model of spoken language in terms of its forms and discourse features.
What is ELT?
English language teaching
Buchanan and Norton (2014) asked ... teachers what they thought of global coursebooks,how they used them, and what they wanted from them.
85
MALL stands for... .
Mobile Assisted Language Learning
The most pervasive technology, the mobile phone, reached ... % of the global population (circa 4.8 billion people) by 2020 (Statista 2020)
67
Who analysed a corpus of theAmerican sitcom Friends in comparison with a corpus of conversational English?
Qualigo
In 1923, Palmer, working in Japan as ... for the government on the teaching of English.
A consultant
According to the passage, what is one of the main reasons why coursebooks are popular?
They provide structure, coherence, and a sense of progress.
What kind of games require users interact, negotiate?
Massively multiplayer online role-playing games
How many effectiveness studies carried out between 1970 and 2006?
37
Overall, the study concluded that ... could serve as a useful and motivating model of spoken English.
Soap operas
Into how many levels Faucett divided the course?
4
According to Hutchinson and Torres (1994), what role do coursebooks play in teaching and learning English?
They serve as an agent of change and contribute to teachers' professional development.
How many ctiteria do we have for CALL enhancement?
12
What are the best touchstones for this, with their much speedier publication turnaround than published books?
Online journals
What was used by Peacock (1997) used to suggest that authentic materials increased motivation signifcantly compared to textbooks in a study of Korean EFL learners at begin-nerlevel?
Class observations
In addition to identifying areas of grammar relevant to ELT, Palmer also discussed ... .
How these might be organised and sequenced.
What role do coursebooks play for teachers who lack adequate training or resources?
They save time and provide a coherent syllabus and structure.
Which term is used in this chapter to refer to the academic study of all the different processes made use of in the development and use of materials for language learning and teaching?
‘the discipline of materials development’
Which term has an old-fashioned ring to it for the same reason?
The term computer-mediated communication (CMC)
What was explored by Siegel in 2014?
His study explored the extent to which the topics in textbooks matched those that students actually want and need to talk about and thus the extent to which they can be considered authentic.
Coursebook authors Jack Richards and Keith Johnson both discuss five main principles that can be used in ordering grammatical items, and, by implication, used to assign them to levels in a multi-level coursebook series (Johnson 2001; Richards 2001). These are:
· simplicity and centrality
· frequency
· learnability
· linguistic distance
· communicative needs
According to Allen (2015), what value do coursebooks add to the teaching and learning process, especially for teachers with limited resources or training?
Coursebooks add value by providing a coherent syllabus and structure, particularly for teachers who lack adequate training, time, or resources to develop their own materials.