This generally equips students with skills to evaluate or develop various types of instructional materials in English suitable to the teaching and learning of specific language objectives.
Instructional materials refer to the human and non-human materials and facilities that can be used to ease, encourage, improved and promote teaching and learning activities. They are whatever materials used in the process of instruction. They are a broad range of resource which can be used to facilitate effective instruction. They indicate a systematic way of designing, carrying out and employing the total process of learning and communication and employing human and non-human resources to bring out a more meaningful and effective instruction. They are human and non-human material that a teacher uses to pass information to the learner in his/her class. (Monsuru Babatunde Muraina (Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin, Nigeria) (2015)
Instructional materials are defined as resources that organize and support instruction, such as textbooks, tasks, and supplementary resources (adapted from Remillard & Heck, 2014 ).
Teaching in this modern period is increasingly becoming more complex and technical to be effectively actualized with traditional tools alone (Anyanwu, 2003). The development in modern technology has made available a wide range of instructional materials to supplement teachers’ efforts in the teaching-learning process. More importantly, the curricula of the modern subjects call for extensively and frequently combined the use of traditional with convectional materials in teaching-learning process (Abolade, 2001). Effective teaching and pedagogical delivery depend majorly on the cordial relationship and free flow of communication between the teachers and the students. Verbal instruction, which is seen as the easiest form of the instructional and teaching delivery system apart from real experience is always very abstract (Adeyanju, 2003). Since students in schools are from the varied cultural and socio-cultural background and training, teachers thus need instructional materials or teaching aids to help them communicate and mix effectively and hence cope with students’ needs based on their abilities and potentialities (Edward, 2002).
Here are some basic principles in materials development identified by Tomlinson (1998)
Instructional materials refer to the human and non-human materials and facilities that can be used to ease, encourage, improved and promote teaching and learning activities. They are whatever materials used in the process of instruction. They are a broad range of resource which can be used to facilitate effective instruction. They indicate a systematic way of designing, carrying out and employing the total process of learning and communication and employing human and non-human resources to bring out a more meaningful and effective instruction. They are human and non-human material that a teacher uses to pass information to the learner in his/her class. (Monsuru Babatunde Muraina (Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin, Nigeria) (2015)
Instructional materials are defined as resources that organize and support instruction, such as textbooks, tasks, and supplementary resources (adapted from Remillard & Heck, 2014 ).
Teaching in this modern period is increasingly becoming more complex and technical to be effectively actualized with traditional tools alone (Anyanwu, 2003). The development in modern technology has made available a wide range of instructional materials to supplement teachers’ efforts in the teaching-learning process. More importantly, the curricula of the modern subjects call for extensively and frequently combined the use of traditional with convectional materials in teaching-learning process (Abolade, 2001). Effective teaching and pedagogical delivery depend majorly on the cordial relationship and free flow of communication between the teachers and the students. Verbal instruction, which is seen as the easiest form of the instructional and teaching delivery system apart from real experience is always very abstract (Adeyanju, 2003). Since students in schools are from the varied cultural and socio-cultural background and training, teachers thus need instructional materials or teaching aids to help them communicate and mix effectively and hence cope with students’ needs based on their abilities and potentialities (Edward, 2002).
Here are some basic principles in materials development identified by Tomlinson (1998)
- The material should achieve impact.
- The material should help learners feel at ease.
- What is taught should be perceived by learners as relevant and useful.
- Materials should require and facilitate learning.
- Materials should expose the learners to language in authentic use.
- Materials should provide learners with an opportunity to use the target language.
- Materials should take into account that learners differ in learning styles.
- Materials should take into account that learners differ in affective attitudes.
- Materials must allow learners to acquire points being taught.
- Materials should provide opportunities for outcome feedback.
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