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Using Technology To Adapt Authentic Materials

The document discusses using authentic materials in language teaching and how technology can help adapt them. It defines authentic materials as materials made for native speakers, provides examples, and notes benefits like cultural insights but also challenges like difficulty levels. It recommends converting materials into activities, adjusting length, simplifying language, and using technologies like SoundCloud, Kahoot, and Nearpod to aid adaptation.

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Using Technology To Adapt Authentic Materials

The document discusses using authentic materials in language teaching and how technology can help adapt them. It defines authentic materials as materials made for native speakers, provides examples, and notes benefits like cultural insights but also challenges like difficulty levels. It recommends converting materials into activities, adjusting length, simplifying language, and using technologies like SoundCloud, Kahoot, and Nearpod to aid adaptation.

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Using Technology

to Adapt
Authentic Materials
Technological Tools for Language Teaching
Authentic
Materials

Materials produced primarily


for the use of native speakers
of the target language.
Types of Authentic Materials

Printed materials Auditory materials Visual materials Audio visual: Internet:


Books Radio Posters TV programs Websites
Magazines Podcasts Signs Films Blogs
Newspapers Songs Infographics Video clips Social networks
Tickets Voice messages Commercial ads Games
Forms Phone messages
Authentic
Materials Group work
vs Discuss Pros and Cons
Course Books
Authentic materials: suitability

•Unsuitable material level •Irrelevancy of themes

•Too difficult •Not adapted for specific use

•Too long or short •Not adapted to student learning styles

•Use of grammar or language (Larry, n.d.)


• The language produced and used by
native speakers

• Listening materials spoken at “normal”


Authentic conversational speed.
Materials:
• Invaluable insight into current events
Benefits
and cultural aspects.

• Audio and video material can be


stopped, rewinded and repeated.
• Not designed for the purpose of
language learning

• Too easy or too difficult for a group of


learners
Drawbacks • Large amount of preparation:
searching, selecting, adapting

• Time consuming

• Practicality
authentic materials into workshop
Convert activities and a variety of exercise types

Adapting
authentic Adjust the length of the materials
materials
Simplify
or key language elements
explain
Technology to adapt
authentic materials
• Soundcloud
• Kahoot
• Quizziz
• Live Worksheets
• LearningApps
• Nearpod
• Quizlet
• SpeechYard
Reference:

• Larry, L. (n.d.). How to adapt Authentic Materials in English Language Teaching. eslbase.
Retrieved 03 02, 2021, from https://www.eslbase.com/teaching/adapt-authentic-materials

• Spirovska, E. (2018). Authentic Materials vs Textbooks in ESP. Journal of Languages for Specific
Purposes, 57-66.
http://jlsp.steconomiceuoradea.ro/archives/005/JLSP5_March2018.pdf#page=57

• Natgeo. https://www.ngllife.com/student-zone/interactive-reading-practice

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