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The following is an overview and what i have learnt from this unit. Real language and its use in its own community. Quality in terms of goals, objectives, learner needs and interest and natural in terms of real life and meaningful communication ? English presented in the classroom should be authentic ? involve language naturally occurring as communication in native-speaker contexts of use advantages of Authentic materials ? They support a more creative approach to teaching. ? They relate more closely to learners needs. ? They provide exposure to real language. ? They provide authentic cultural information. ? They have a positive effect on learner motivation. Disadvantages of Using Authentic Materials ? authentic materials may be too culturally ? contain difficult language, unneeded vocabulary items and complex language structures Non authentic material Materials used by teachers or learners to facilitate the learning of a language. Obviously include cassetes, videos, cd roms, dvd?s, dictionaries, grammarbooks, workbooks, photocopies etc. Advantages. ? Materials are relevant, useful and focused on. ? It is adapted for a particular aspect. ? Get clear objectives to develop. ? The language is easier and understandable. ? Using course books has its share of benefits and advantages such as having a well organized content with a consistency in the topics and genres for the four skill area (listening, speaking, reading, and writing). Teachers who adopt a course book may also find it easier to teach since most of the preparation, including the types of activities, audios and in some cases, achievement tests, are already done by the publisher. This would be a great help to those inexperienced teachers who are just getting started into teaching. However, I have learnt that nothing in the world is perfect and teachers need to somehow solve the issues and problems that may come with course books. These issues and problems may include finding ways to motivate students and teaching students academic skills not found in the course books. In this sense, my job as a teacher is not as easy as it seems. Many hours of planning and developing other activities are still required, but these planning and development will benefit both the student and the teacher by making the classroom activities more fun, more interesting, and result in more learning.
