Elt Materials Selection And Adaptation

ELT Materials Selection and Adaptation

Expansion Text must be lengthened in some way.  Add one or more sentences/paragraphs to the beginning & end of the text.  Add specific items/sentences within the text (e.g. adjectives).  Add comment within the text.

Reduction Text must be shortened in some way.  Remove clauses/specified items (e.g. adjectives)/sentences  Combine sentences.  Rewrite in a different format.

Media Transfer Text must be transferred into a different medium or format.  Transfer into a visual form (e.g. pictures, graphs, maps, tables)  Turn prose into a poem (vice versa)  Turn a letter into a newspaper article (vice versa)  Turn a headline into a proverb (vice versa)  Turn a poem into an advertising slogan (vice versa)  Turn a prose narrative into a screenplay.

Matching A connection must be found between the text & something else  Match text with a visual representation  Match text with a title/another text  Match text with a voice/music

Interpretation Personal knowledge/experience must be used to clarify and extend the meaning(s) of the text.  What does this remind you of?  What image does this produce?  What associations does it have?  What questions do you wish to ask the author?  What does the text not say that it might have said?  Formulate WH-questions on the text.

Creating text Text is to be used as a springboard for the creation of new texts.  Write a parallel text on a different theme.  Use the same story outline/model to write a new text.  Use the same title but write a new text.  Combine these texts to create a new text.

Analysis Text is to be submitted to some form of languagefocused scrutiny  Work out the ration of one-word and two-word verbs  How many different tenses are used? Which are most/least frequent?  List the different ways in which the word X is referred to in the text (anaphoric reference)  List all the words to do with (the sea, movement, ecology etc.) in this text.

Project  Text is used as a springboard for some

practical work with a concrete outcome.  Use the text as a centerpiece of an advertising campaign/mini bulletin/brochure/TV commercials, etc.