Teaching materials - The Visual Elements in EFL coursebooks

Materials Development for Language TeachingThe Visual Elements in EFL coursebooks Group :... THE VISUAL ELEMENTS IN EFL COURSEBOOKS ❖ Introduction: ❖ Visuals in recent British courseb

Materials Development for Language Teaching

The Visual Elements in EFL

coursebooks

Group

:

THE VISUAL ELEMENTS IN EFL

COURSEBOOKS

❖ Introduction:

❖ Visuals in recent British

coursebooks

➢ What do we get?

➢ How are you used?

➢ What kind of use?

➢ What might we do with visual in coursebooks?

❖ Conclusion

INTRODUCTION :

Most of the Second Language Teaching (SLT) Coursebook

bombards the reader with too many colourful visual images with different purposes

What do we get?

❏ Affective: provided to enhance interest and motivation.

❏ Attentive: intended to attract and direct attention.

❏ Didactic: intended to facilitate learning by showing

something difficult to convey in words.

❏ Supportive: provided for less able learners.

❏ Retentional: provided to facilitate memorisation

What do we get?

How are they

used?

The striking statistics here show that over half of the images (40.8% + 12.6%)

Key point: The figure images decoration: 53,5%

ELF publisher, editors and author’s thinking

The material providing

Illustration-as-mere-decoration

How are they used?

1 Dealing with precise elements of the unit language focus

What kind of use?

2 Working on listening comprehension

What kind of use?

3 Finding or giving information

What kind of use?

4 Deduction and creativity

What kind of use?

What might we do with visuals in coursebooks?

Context

Visuals requirements

Linguistic purpose

Context - Visuals requirements

Linguistic purpose - Visuals requirements

A photo/ drawing:

- Is linked with activities of the page

- Allows learners to bring their own reality to the lesson

1.Is the photo linked with activities of the page?

2 Due to visual requirements, do you choose this book?

3 If you are the author, what you would like to change to adapt the visual

requirements?

Page 74-Unit 10-Outcomes

Intermediate

Talking about a picture

What are these people doing in

the picture?

How do you think they are

feeling?

Talking with a picture

What nationality do you think these people are? Are they dressed and behaving like young people at the concert in your country? Why or why not?

Coursebooks offer very few opportunities to use

pictures to stimulate their own inner meanings.

1.Is the photo linked with activities of the page?

2 Due to visual requirements, do you choose this book?

CONCLUSIO N

- The majority of pictures are used for decorative purposes.

- The coursebooks should be more meaningful and involved kind of language learning experience.

Thank you!