IMPORTANCE OF SELECTING TEACHING AND LEARNING MATERIALS.

The teaching materials of a second language are quite meaningful for teachers and students, it serves for supporting and facilitating the teaching and learning process, for this reason the design and development of the teaching material must be truthful and effective for achieving successful classes.

Teaching and learning materials are fundamental for the curriculum of a school in order to correspond to the learning needs of the students. The material should include all kind of resources for facilitate the learning process taking into account textbooks, videos, audio tapes, and others,

The resources of teaching and learning material must include grammar, the use of the real language, autonomy activities, the use of technology and others, which allow motivate the learning process of the students.

Aspects should take into account:

·         The learning needs of the students.

·         Select the resources of teaching and learning (Provide learning opportunities than will facilitate the process supported of computer tools, books, media, etc.)

·         Select the teaching material

·         Evaluate the teaching material

The learning needs are determined by the context and the educational field and it determines the methods and/or approaches to use for designing and development teaching materials.  The method and/or approach must be pertinent to the learning needs of the students, if it isn’t determined or isn’t established of pertinent way, designing and developing teaching material will not be truthful or effective and the learning needs will not respond.

Summarizing, the designing and development of teaching materials and allowing to achieve successful classes and to bring a response to the learning needs of the students.