Teaching materials - The Visual Elements in EFL coursebooks

Materials Development for Language Teaching

The Visual Elements in EFL
coursebooks
Group

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THE VISUAL ELEMENTS IN EFL
COURSEBOOKS
❖ Introduction:
❖ Visuals in recent British
coursebooks
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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?


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


How are they
used?

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


How are they
used?

Key point:
The figure images decoration: 53,5%
ELF publisher, editors and author’s
thinking

The material providing
Illustration-as-mere-decoration


What kind of use?
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 might we do with visuals in coursebooks?

Visuals
requirements
Context

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?

Page 74-Unit 10-Outcomes

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


Talking about a picture

Talking with a picture

What are these people doing in
the picture?
How do you think they are
feeling?

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