| Course Content |
ELT course material design theory and principles (eg: material selection, adaptation, development and evaluation) and main arguments for and against textbook use; the relationship between method, ideology and the textbook author; format for selection of course materials: learner's language proficiency, learnability, ease of use, cultural content, appropriateness of communicative interaction and language use, corpus-based authentic, real-world context-based materials that help students interact with each other and with the teacher; adapting and developing materials for language teaching, adapting textbook materials to specific learning needs and teaching environments, pre-service teachers designing their own teaching materials and auxiliary materials according to the appropriate method, student level, needs and current school environment; material evaluation, language tools related to the use of the textbook in the classroom, textbook evaluation criteria and current ELT methods on material design. |
