Diseño de Materiales - Week 13 -  Learner Generated Materials

Introduction: Hello and welcome to Week 13 of the course Diseño de Materiales for the licenciatura in English teaching at ULACIT. In this class we will talk about how students can contribute to the didactic materials used in our classes. 

Today's Goals:

• Discuss the role of student generated texts as didactic resources in your language classroom. 
• Propose practical strategies to use learner generated materials for error correction, feedback, self and peer-assessment/feedback.
• Consider several activity cycles to exploit student created texts for task modeling and peer/self correction and feedback. 

Guiding Questions:

• What role can learners play in the creation of course materials?
• What are the benefits and challenges of using student created texts to promote self and peer assessment and feedback?

Warm Up: Vacation Highlights

Last week we didn't have class because of Easter vacation.

• How did you spend your time?
• What are your highlights?

Task 1: Task Sequence for an Authentic Text

Walk us through your task sequence using the prompts below.

• Summarize the text or video content.
• Which task sequence did you choose?
• What are the steps?
• What are your thoughts about using this task sequence?

Task 2: Discussing Learner Generated Materials

Discuss the following questions with your partners. When you finish, go to Task 2.

• What comes to your mind when you hear the phrase "learner generated materials"?
• In what ways might learners contribute to the creation of learning materials for the class?
• Think about a typical class with your students. What are some products or artifacts that students create as a result of participating in the lesson activities?
• What purposes do these products/artifacts serve the learners? How might a teacher exploit these learner produced artifacts for additional teaching-learning purposes?

Task 3: Practical Ideas for Teachers

Teachers are naturally very creative and resourceful. Click your group link below to go to a worksheet where you will be asked to propose several concrete ways to work with learner produced materials.

• Group 1: CLICK HERE
• Other Examples: CLICK HERE

References:

McGrath, I. (2016). Materials Evaluation and Design for Language Teaching (2nd Ed.). University of Edinburgh Press.