ESL/EFL Materials and Media

Ø  The most different between authentic materials and commercial materials as follow:

The different	Authentic materials	Commercial materials
1.      Who created the material? 2.      Time 3.      Applying 4.      The source of materials	·   The teachers ·   Taking time and effort to locate ·   Difficulty in making comprehensible and media for the students ·   Real world/hot new (newspaper, TV program, brochure, magazine, etc.)	·   Publishing companies, Government agencies committee, and Curriculum development teams ·   Saving time ·   Providing lessons with some useful suggestions or techniques ·   Focus with curriculum (text book)

QUOTATION ABOUT TEACHER

  What Is A Good Language Teachers?

If we as a teacher of course we have to have a good language, because a teacher who can speak with their students very well. But they do not only speak up. Their speak up have advantage. The language used by the teacher is understand of language. May be English, Indonesia, or mother language. There are several qualities that a good language teacher must have. To pass on knowledge to students, a teacher must be competent with the knowledge that she has. Secondly, a teacher must be willing to explore other types of learning styles to pass on knowledge and be ready to try different methods when one does not work. A good language teacher must be passionate about teaching language. Finally, a good language teacher should be able to assess the learning that her students have done and make changes based on those assessments.