Word Cloud

After reading  "Developing materials for language teaching" by Tomlinson, B. (2014), and "Teaching materials and the roles of EFL/ESL teachers: theory and practice" by McGrath, I. (2013), I created a word cloud based on the most important concepts or key words the authors deal with.  Below is my explanation and justification for those words or phrases I chose.     

To begin with, I chose the shape of an apple since it is usually used to represent teachers.

I included many concepts in the word cloud, like:

*All kinds of material: authentic (newspapers, magazines), published (the coursebook), co-constructed (teacher and student), teacher-prepared

*4 types of material: instructional (informs learners about language), experiential (provides exposure to the language), elicitative (stimulates language use), exploratory (facilitates discoveries about language use)

*What material development involves: selection, trial, adaptation, modification, evaluation, production, exploitation, supplementation

*Important concepts related to textbooks: conscious-learning (since it is usually standardized and not authentic), choice (the teacher has the choice of choosing if he/she wants to use the textbook, if he/she wants to stick to the book or modify some parts, which book he/she uses, etc.  Sometimes, however, the book is so complete that teachers feel as if they don´t have a choice in anything), mediator (teacher becomes the mediator: from the material to the students), global textbook (which is a disadvantage since material should be culturally adapted; every student or group of students is different), stereotypes (global textbooks portray stereotypes and limited realities), resource (besides from the textbook, there are usually many other resources included, like the teacher´s book, the activity book, etc.), the 3Ps (Presentation-Practice-Production)