Language Acquisition and Language Learning Materials

What ELT Materials Do to Inhibit Language Acquisition and Development

What ELT Materials Do to Facilitate Language Acquisition and Development

promote language acquisition and development

learner become independent learners of the language

providing a lot of experience from different genres and text types.

provide new experiences about attractive illustration, design and illustration

Knowledge of Language Acquisition

the language experience needs to be contextualized and comprehensible (Krashen 1985, 1993, 1999)

Thoughts about Language Acquisition

helps learners to acquire and develop English

They are confusing language learning and skills development by trying to teach language features during listening and reading activities.

They are providing learners with far too much de-contextualized experience of language exemplification and not nearly enough experience of language in fully contextualized use.

They are failing to help the learners to make full tise of the language experience available to them outside the classroom.

Achievable challenges help learners to think and feel and to achieve valuable self-esteem

The majority of language learners gain very little from being given information about a language and how it is used

The majority of language learners gain very little from practice activities which help them to get most things right by controlling and simplifying the context in which they are asked to produce language

the language and discourse features available for potential acquisition need to be salient, meaningful and frequently encountered (Maley 1994, 1998; Tomlinson 1998b)

the learner needs to be motivated, relaxed, positive and engaged (Arnold 1999; Tomlinson 1998b, 1998d, 2003d)

the learner needs to achieve deep and multi-dimensional processing of the language. (Tomlinson 2000c, 200Ib)