ELT 401 - Developing Course Contents in ELT

The purpose of the course is to inform the students on developing course content and materials for teaching major language skills and the evaluation process of materilas, to create awareness in students about the criteira for the evaluation of course books at A1-A2-B1-B2 levels, to enable them to develop materials for teaching language skills in line with language teaching methods.

Theory and principles of ELT materials design (e.g.: selecting, adapting, developing and evaluating materials) and the basic arguments for and against the use of coursebooks in the classroom; the relation between methodology, ideology and the coursebook writer; format for the selection of language materials: suitability regarding the format, the students’ proficiency level, learnability, ease of use, cultural content, availability of communicative interaction and language use, and the use of corpus-based authentic materials set in a real-world context which allows learners to interact with each other or the teacher in meaningful ways; adapting or developing materials for language teaching: adapting coursebook materials to particular learning needs and teaching contexts, designing teaching materials and supplementing materials parallel to the methodology, to the level and needs of the students and to present school environment; evaluation of materials and text books used in EFL classroom settings, language material and textbook evaluation criteria and ways to relate materials design to current ELT methodology.