Colección: Académicas
Editorial UPTC
Materials Design
Key Elements for English Language Teaching in Colombia
Editorial UPTC
Autores
| Jahir Aguirre Morales | Bertha Ramos-Holguín | Jhonatan Vásquez-Guarnizo
Palabras claves
- Materials’ design - Materials’ development - EFL teachers - English language teaching - Pre-service teachers - EFL Material Designers
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COP $25.000
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COP $17.900
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Descripción
This book, which is intended for pre-service, novice, and in-service teachers and educators, looks at the key aspects that teachers, as material designers, should bear in mind when creating teaching/learning materials for EFL, thinking about the needs and the particularities of the population. This textbook is divided into twelve elements. The first four elements focus on the initial theoretical aspects that a teacher, as a text designer, should consider when creating materials. Element five introduces a clear description and differentiation between a teaching and learning objective. The next element, Element six, suggests that although all the English skills can be developed in a single workshop or guide, the material should have a protagonist skill. Element seven is based on the notion that teaching and learning materials, such as workshops and guides, can follow a series of steps that include a warming up activity, a presentation of the topic, a practice, and a production stage. Element eight describes the importance of instructions in materials design. The last Elements, nine, ten, and eleven, relate to instructional aspects when designing materials. All of these aspects help material developers have a more inviting and well-designed material. Finally, element twelve helps material developers self-evaluate the material they have designed through reflection.
INTRODUCTION...............................................................................9
ELEMENT 1.......................................................................................13
WHAT IS MATERIALS DESIGN?
Materials Design
Kinds of Material
ELEMENT 2.......................................................................................19
THE NEED FOR EFL TEACHERS TO DESIGN MATERIALS
The Need to Design Teaching/Learning Material
Teachers as Material Designers
ELEMENT 3.......................................................................................25
THE IMPORTANCE OF NEEDS IN MATERIALS DESIGN
Needs in Materials Design
Kind of Needs
ELEMENT 4.......................................................................................33
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF BELIEFS, MOTIVATION, AND INVESTMENT
Teachers’ Beliefs
Motivation and Investment
ELEMENT 5.......................................................................................39
DIFFERENTIATING A TEACHING OBJECTIVE FROM A LEARNING OBJECTIVE
Type of Objectives
Learning Objective
Teaching Objective
ELEMENT 6.......................................................................................45
DISCOVERING THE HIERARCHY OF COMMUNICATIVE ACTIVITIES
Hierarchy of Communicative Activities
Balancing Communicative Language Activities
ELEMENT 7.......................................................................................51
LESSON PLANNING AND ITS CONNECTION WITH MATERIALS DESIGN
Lesson Planning and Materials Design
ELEMENT 8.......................................................................................61
PROVIDING ACCURATE INSTRUCTIONS IN MATERIALS DESIGN
Instructions
Written Instructions
Oral Instructions
ELEMENT 9.......................................................................................71
WHAT SPACE TELLS US ABOUT MATERIALS DESIGN
Negative and Positive Space
Gestalt Principles
ELEMENT 10......................................................................................77
RULE OF THIRDS IN MATERIALS DESIGN
Rule of Thirds
Rule of Thirds for Images
Rule of Thirds in a Page Layout
Movement and Transition
ELEMENT 11......................................................................................83
CREATING EMPHASIS WITH FONTS
Font and Typography
Three Font Sizes
Three Fonts
Font Emphasis
Font and Audience
ELEMENT 12......................................................................................89
REFLECTION FOR SELF-ASSESSMENT IN MATERIALS DESIGN
Reflection and Self-assessment
CONCLUSIONS.................................................................................97
USEFUL WEB LINKS FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ............. 100
REFERENCES.................................................................................. 103
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Nombre invertido: Aguirre Morales, Jahir
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Professor at Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia (UPTC) in Tunja, Boyacá, holds an M.A. in English Didactics from Universidad de Caldas. He belongs to the research group “TONGUE”. He currently teaches at the Modern Languages Teaching Program at UPTC. He was an ESL teacher in North Carolina and a Spanish language teacher in Virginia, USA. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6859-7216 jahir.aguirre@uptc.edu.co |
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Nombre invertido: Ramos-Holguín, Bertha
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Professor at Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia (UPTC) in Tunja, Boyacá, holds a PhD in Education Sciences from UPTC, and an M.A. in Applied Linguistics for the Teaching of English from Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. She is the leader of the research group “TONGUE”. She currently teaches at the Modern Languages Teaching Program at UPTC, the M.A. in Language Teaching Program, and the Education Sciences Doctoral Program at the same university. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4468-1402 bertha.ramos@uptc.edu.co |
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Nombre invertido: Vásquez-Guarnizo, Jhonatan
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English language professor in the School of Languages at Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia (UPTC) in Tunja, Boyacá. He holds an M.A. in Language Teaching from the UPTC and a B.A. in English Language Teaching from Universidad de la Amazonia. He is part of the research group “TONGUE” and he is currently pursuing his second M.A. in Education with emphasis on English Didactics at Universidad Externado de Colombia. jhonatan.vasquez@uptc.edu.co |
