ESSAY ON AUTHENTIC MATERIAL
A) THE VALUE OF USING AUTHENTIC MATERIAL
The use of authentic material is engaging to both the learner and teacher and the relevance to the real
world keeps students informed. There are various layers of learning embedded when using authentic
material: language, cultural insights and finally the practical application. This increases the quality of
foreign language teaching; and opens up a positive transfer of learning for students. (Oguz & Bahar 2008).
Ultimately authentic materials promotes higher motivation and interest in learning; and leads to improving
communicative competence (Akbari & Razavi 2015).
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A) THE VALUE OF USING AUTHENTIC MATERIAL
The use of authentic material is engaging to both the learner and teacher and the relevance to the real
world keeps students informed. There are various layers of learning embedded when using authentic
material: language, cultural insights and finally the practical application. This increases the quality of
foreign language teaching; and opens up a positive transfer of learning for students. (Oguz & Bahar 2008).
Ultimately authentic materials promotes higher motivation and interest in learning; and leads to improving
communicative competence (Akbari & Razavi 2015).
PURCHASE FOR FULL PREVIEW
