Selection & Adaptation of Materials and Activities - Principles in Material Adaptation

• Relate your teaching materials to your objectives and aims.
• Make sure that you know what language is for. You should choose a material that your students can use effectively for their own purposes. Keep your learners’ needs in mind.
• Pay attention to the relationship between language, learning process and the learner.

Key Learner Variables

•Personality 

Personality affects the materials that we want to design.

Learners might be introverted or extroverted.

The material that we design should encourage even a shy student in the classroom.

 

•Motivation 

Highly motivated students learn faster and better.

As teachers, we should design activities that motivate our students.

 

•Attitude 

Learners can learn something in different ways.

The most important point is that we should satisfy our students’ needs by combining our experiences and their needs.

 

•Aptitude 

Some people seem more readily than others to learn another language.

•Preferred Learning Styles 

Some students might be more comfortable in a spoken language whereas others are more comfortable in written material.

 

•Intelligence

It has also an effect in learning a foreign or second language.