Good day everyone! This is your teacher, Ms. Mars, and on today's video, I will teach you the first topic of our Unit 1, and of course, that is Lesson 1, and it is Defining Materials and Materials Development. So I hope you all are ready, and without further ado, let's begin!
Alright, so by the end of this lesson class, you should possess the following competencies. First is you would be able to define what material and material development. Second is you will of course be able to cite examples of learning materials that can be used in in the classroom. Third is you would be able to discuss what materials and materials development are in the context of language classes or language classroom.
So I hope you all are excited as I am. excited as well so let's begin okay class so to start this lesson we are going to answer first the first question which is what are materials so if i am going to present an analogy to you let's say you guys are working as carpenters we could somehow say that the materials that we are talking about here are the tools that you can utilize in order for you to build a house or in order for you to build a structure. But in the context of language teaching, we could always go back to the core that we are focusing in this topic, and that is, of course, teaching English language to our learners. So in our context, Tomlinson 2001 said that materials can anything.
that can be used to facilitate the learning of a language. And since if we are going to consider that definition of Tomlinson in 2001, we could say that it is everything the teacher or English language teachers are using in order to assist the learning of their students. And we could think of really numerous materials that not only being utilized in offline teaching but also in online teaching. On the other hand, another authors actually give their definition of materials. To be specific, Garten and Graves in 2014 say that materials play a central role in language teaching.
And of course, as language teachers, we are expected to be utilizing varied materials in order to cater our students. Remember, class, our students are definitely unique. They are not the same in terms of intelligence and in terms of learning style. Some prefer to learn using audio.
Others prefer to use both audio and visual. Others also could effectively learn a language if they are using visual and a lot more. So these things should be considered.
That is why I am here. materials play central role in language teaching imagine if you are studying without any material okay so that would that be possible yes that could be but it would really be different in terms of effectiveness and at the same time the fun you know and how engaging your lesson is Of course, it's because you use a really good material that you know as a teacher really caters the need of your students. So being a teacher, language teacher to be specific, it's not like a piece of cake.
We really have to make sure that we are creative and resourceful enough to think of what materials do students really need. So we have to decide on that. And you, being the teacher of those learners, you are the best person who can decide on what material you need or you can utilize for that specific lesson. In addition, more and more authors give their definition of materials. We have Diamante, Fossey, and Inayati in 2018. They emphasize that materials are the heart of the teacher and learning process, and the materials that are chosen selectively And remember, used effectively will improve the TL process.
I would like to repeat the materials that are chosen selectively and used effectively will improve the TL process. TL, teaching and learning. So that is why materials are very important. And we don't just decide randomly on the materials that we are going to use as teachers. We have...
to be selective and and of course we have to use the materials that we chose effectively we don't just take materials for granted let's say we receive a lot of materials from the school or from our friend or from a colleague so we have to make sure we utilize them and we have to make sure that these materials serve their purpose and as teachers we could also create our materials you It would be tidwas, but that is also one of our duties and responsibilities as teachers. So always remember, Diamante, Fodze, and Inayati in 2018, they give a very good definition also of materials. And that is materials are the heart of teaching and learning process.
On the other hand, Tomlinson... In 2001, he elaborates that materials can be in the form of linguistic, it can be in the form of auditory, it can be visual, it can be kinesthetic. And at the same time, they can be presented through print and it could be presented through live performance or display.
It could be through or on the cassette, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, or in the internet. Oh, as what Tomlinson elaborated, of course, various materials. There are various materials that we can utilize and they come in different forms. So it is up to us as teachers on what type of materials are we going to use.
There is no such rule that, oh, you only have to use kinesthetic related type of material or there is no such rule that we could definitely just use the ones that can be accessed or played through a cassette, especially now that our landscape in the teaching and learning has changed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. So as teachers, we can really decide and we really have to decide intelligently or we really have to decide well on the type of material that we can utilize in order to support the distant learning that... We are actually following now, so we have this distant learning modality or the distant delivery of instruction. And that is really a huge, huge challenge to teachers like us. All right.
A lot has been said. And in fact, a lot of authors have already given their own definitions of what materials are. And the bottom line here is that we teachers need to adapt and develop our own materials. Why do we need to adapt?
Well, we all know that we have sources such as online. We have a lot of online resources. So that means those materials that already exist, which we think we could be able to perfectly utilize in our lesson, then we could adopt them. All right.
And how about those materials that... We have to create ourselves. That's why we need to create the materials. Remember, according to Tom Linson in 2001, materials can be anything that we use to facilitate the learning of our students. And by facilitating, this not only mean class that we are talking here the materials or we are talking the materials here about the things that we are going to use when we implement the lesson or when we discuss to our learners.
but how about the preliminaries before the implementation of our of our lesson so that means even our lesson plan our syllabus those are another types of material so those are part of the materials that i am talking about so that means we have to create our own syllabus we have to create our own lesson plan and a lot more that we create so of course the bottom line teachers like us we have to adapt and create our own materials. This time, we have our second million-dollar question. And that question is, what is materials development? So, materials development is actually both a field of study and undertaking. So, I am going to discuss to you, why do we say it is a field of study and why do we say it is an undertaking?
So, as a field of study, It actually studies the principles, the procedures of implementation, the design, the evaluation of the language teaching materials. When we create language teaching materials, we have to make sure we base it on principles. We have to make sure we study the principle. We study the procedure, the principles of the design. So how should we be able to create a design?
So we have to... to anchor on the principles and the procedures as well, and the implementation and the evaluation also of the language material. So we don't just design class.
We also implement what we have designed, and we evaluate. And these things, we have to make sure we base it on existing principles, and we follow also specific procedures. I know you don't like following procedures because it could really be a lot of things to do.
I mean, how we wish we live in a country or we live in a world where everything we want, we can just do it. Like everything could just be freely done by us. But you know, we have rules, not only in our daily life, but even in teaching, of course.
So we follow principles. For example, the second language acquisition principles, a lot of principles. created by researchers, by authors, and of course by teachers themselves. So procedures as well, remember? Principles of design and procedures of implementation and evaluation of the teaching materials.
That is why it is a field of study because when we develop materials, materials development, we have to study first before we come up with something. We don't just randomly, okay, today I'm going to develop this and that. We have to consider things. We have to read theories. We have to pack ourselves with principles and procedures.
Okay, how about as an undertaking? So as an undertaking, actually materials development involves three things. The production, the evaluation, and the implementation. So the production, of course, after we design the creation, there would be the production.
And that is an undertaking. And the evaluation, we all know that after creating process or the designing, the procedures that we are going to follow, the study or the field of study, we don't just do evaluation in the field of study. But we also evaluate in the undertaking or the undertaking side of material development or materials development.
So we evaluate and of course we implement. We implement, we evaluate what we have implemented, and we adapt now the materials that are created for teachers. For example, those that were up in the bookstores or onlines that we can access or we can adapt and we can utilize for our classroom or for our language classes. So I hope you were able to see the difference between materials development as a field of study and as a field of undertaking. As a field of study, remember, we have to pack ourselves here with the principles and the procedures in order to successfully create or in order to successfully animate the things that we have to do under the field of study.
While in the field of undertaking, of course, it is here that we now come up with a material. And we also evaluate since we are now going to utilize that in our classroom. And of course, we adapt. So thank you very much all for listening and viewing this video.
I hope you learned something for our lesson one of under unit one of our course. So lesson one, it is defining materials and materials development. Bye, everyone.
Thank you. And God bless. Keep safe.