Jahir Aguirre Morales & Bertha Ramos Holguín 
Materials Design [EPUB ebook] 
Key Elements for English Language Teaching in Colombia

INTRODUCTION
ELEMENT 1
WHAT IS MATERIALS DESIGN?
Materials Design
Kinds of Material
ELEMENT 2
THE NEED FOR EFL TEACHERS TO DESIGN MATERIALS
The Need to Design Teaching/Learning Material
Teachers as Material Designers
ELEMENT 3
THE IMPORTANCE OF NEEDS IN MATERIALS DESIGN
Needs in Materials Design
Kind of Needs
ELEMENT 4
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF BELIEFS, MOTIVATION, AND INVESTMENT
Teachers’ Beliefs
Motivation and Investment
ELEMENT 5
DIFFERENTIATING A TEACHING OBJECTIVE FROM A LEARNING OBJECTIVE
Type of Objectives
Learning Objective
Teaching Objective
ELEMENT 6
DISCOVERING THE HIERARCHY OF COMMUNICATIVE ACTIVITIES
Hierarchy of Communicative Activities
Balancing Communicative Language Activities
ELEMENT 7
LESSON PLANNING AND ITS CONNECTION WITH
MATERIALS DESIGN
Lesson Planning and Materials Design
ELEMENT 8
PROVIDING ACCURATE INSTRUCTIONS IN MATERIALS
DESIGN
Instructions
Written Instructions
Oral Instructions
ELEMENT 9
WHAT SPACE TELLS US ABOUT MATERIALS DESIGN
Negative and Positive Space
Gestalt Principles
ELEMENT 10
RULE OF THIRDS IN MATERIALS DESIGN
Rule of Thirds
Rule of Thirds for Images
Rule of Thirds in a Page Layout
Movement and Transition
ELEMENT 11
CREATING EMPHASIS WITH FONTS
Font and Typography
Three Font Sizes
Three Fonts
Font Emphasis
Font and Audience
ELEMENT 12
REFLECTION FOR SELF-ASSESSMENT IN MATERIALS DESIGN
Reflection and Self-assessment
CONCLUSIONS
USEFUL WEB LINKS FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
REFERENCES

Jahir Aguirre Morales
Professor at Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia (UPTC) in Tunja, Boyacá, holds an M.A. in English Didactics from Universidad de Caldas. He belongs to the research group ‘TONGUE’. He currently teaches at the Modern Languages Teaching Program at UPTC. He was an ESL teacher in North Carolina and a Spanish language teacher in Virginia, USA.
Bertha Ramos-Holguín
Professor at Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia (UPTC) in Tunja, Boyacá, holds a Ph D in Education Sciences from UPTC, and an M.A. in Applied Linguistics for the Teaching of English from Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. She is the leader of the research group ‘TONGUE’. She currently teaches at the Modern Languages Teaching Program at UPTC, the M.A. in Language Teaching Program, and the Education Sciences Doctoral Program at the same university.
Jhonatan Vásquez-Guarnizo
English language professor in the School of Languages at Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia (UPTC) in Tunja, Boyacá. He holds an M.A. in Language Teaching from the UPTC and a B.A. in English Language Teaching from Universidad de la Amazonia. He is part of the research group ‘TONGUE’ and he is currently pursuing his second M.A. in Education with emphasis on English Didactics at Universidad Externado de Colombia.