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ELT Journal 1991 45(3):211-217; doi:10.1093/elt/45.3.211
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Some thoughts on DIY materials design

David Block

English Instructor at ESADE Idiomes in Barcelona, Spain. He holds an MA in Applied Linguistics from the University of Houston and an RSA Diploma. For the past four years he has been assistant director of the Mediterranean Institute, a month-long programme for language teachers held each July at ESADE. More recently, he has been actively involved in local teacher-training programmes. At present, he is interested in how findings from cognitive science might help us better understand language teaching and learning.

Materials design is an area of ELT training which is sometimes neglected in methodology texts and teacher-training programmes. In this paper, I shall first discuss reasons often given against teacher-generated materials. From there, I shall move on to consider the opposite view, offering three arguments in favour of DIY (‘Do it Yourself’) materials design.


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