Professional Documents
Culture Documents
(Taken and adapted from Robinett, 1978, cited in Brown, 2007, p. 192)
GENERAL MATERIAL SELECTION
AND EXPLOITATION
Questions to be considered:
What does the resource contribute to
developing meaning-making and
interpretation, awareness of language and
cultures and their relationship?
What opportunities to explore language and
culture does the resource provide?
How does the resource allow learners to
make connections between their own lives
and experiences and the target language and
its speakers?
GENERAL MATERIAL SELECTION
AND EXPLOITATION
Questions to be considered:
What opportunities for exploration does the
resource afford students?
How does the resource connect to other
resources, or how do the components of a
resource connect with each other?
What sort of learning will the resource
enable? What will it build on and what could
be done next?
What more will be needed to use the
resource to its fullest effect?
CONCLUSION
There are many instruments that teachers
can refer to.
These instruments are incorporating
pertinent criteria in selecting and
evaluating learning resources to ensure
effective implementation of teaching and
learning processes in the classroom.
CONCLUSION
Different set of criteria may be adopted to
fit the different nature of each school.
The criteria and information provided in
this topic may serve as guidelines for
teachers especially to create their own
instruments which may be more relevant to
the contexts they are in.
TUTORIAL TASKS (GROUP WORK)