UNIT 23 CONSULTING REFERENCE RESOURCES TO HELP IN LESSON PREPARATION

The main question in this unit would it be how do we consult reference resources?

First of all we have to know what reference resources are. Reference resources are all the sources of information about language and about teaching that we can refer to for help in lesson preparation. They include reference materials.

Reference materials are: dictionaries, books, grammar books articles, magazines about the language.

Supplementary materials in a coursebook: Phonetic charts, list of irregular verbs, websites on the internet.

As well as the materials are considered as resource materials, we have to consider that people are also called resources like the department of colleagues who teach foreign languages or from other subjects.

All the materials or resources can be found in physical or on the net, so it is important that if we use the internet, we have to find relevant information.
When we think about other kind of resources to help our lesson preparation, we have to denote the necessities that our students have and also what we expect from them. As teachers, we have to push forward our students spectations by pointing different tasks to be developed.
Source: Spratt, M., Pulverness, A., & Williams, M. (2011). The Teachink Knowledge Tests Course . United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.