Context matters: a sociocultural framework for materials development
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: English language education is commonly seen by practitioners and researchers as an activity that should take into account the teachers and learners’ sociocultural realities. Reflecting this, in this article I argue for the use of Activity Theory as a sociocultural framework to promote the development of practitioners’ contextually relevant learning materials. Illustrating from my own EAP practice, I show how I used Activity Theory to overcome the limitations of the materials that were provided at a British university to teach multimodality to a group of international foundation students. Whilst making the case that materials development should reflect the sociocultural nature of teaching and learning, the article also argues that materials development knowledge and skills should be part of teachers’ core pedagogical repertoire.
Source: ELT Journal
DOI: 10.1093/elt/ccae047
Author: Luis Carabantes
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $5,755
OpenAlex ID: W4402713038