Authentic Materials In Elt. This paper gives an overview about material design and the use of authentic materials in the english as a second foreign language classroom and their significance for language learners. Benefits of teaching esl with authentic english materials.
Authentic material is any material written in english that was not created for intentional use in the english language classroom. Authentic materials provide resources for elt teachers and offer them the opportunity to expose learners to materials produced for real life and out of classroom contexts. By using authentic materials students will encounter words and constructions that they d probably never see in formal esl materials.
In most cases authentic simply describes materials used for teaching which were not originally intended for that purpose.
So authentic material is designed for native speakers to hear or read. They can be used to add more interest for the learner. Abstract the paper is a theoretical part of a doctoral research study that investigates the authenticity of business english be teaching materials used in a tunisian higher education context. When people first think of authentic materials they usually assume that we are talking about newspaper and magazine articles.
