Materials Development

Singapore University of Social Sciences

Materials Development (TSL563)

Applications Open: 01 October 2025

Applications Close: 15 November 2025

Next Available Intake: January 2026

Course Types: Modular Graduate Course

Language: English

Duration: 6 months

Fees: $2200 View More Details on Fees

Area of Interest: Linguistics and Languages

Schemes: Alumni Continuing Education (ACE), Postgraduate Alumni Continuing Education (PACE)

Funding: To be confirmed

School/Department: School of Humanities & Behavioural Sciences

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Synopsis

TSL 563 Materials Development provides students with an insight into the processes of language teaching materials evaluation, adaptation and development. These processes are guided by principles grounded in language and language learning theories. In addition to thinking systematically and critically about the selection, evaluation, adaptation and development of materials, students will also be involved in the creative process of developing and evaluating their own materials suitable for the Digital Age.

Level: 5
Credit Units: 5
Presentation Pattern: EVERY 2 YEARS
E-Learning: BLENDED - Learning is done MAINLY online using interactive study materials in Canvas. Students receive guidance and support from online instructors via discussion forums and emails. This is supplemented with SOME face-to-face sessions. If the course has an exam component, this will be administered on-campus.

Topics

A systematic approach to materials evaluation
Materials evaluation as a cyclical process: Pre-use, in-use and post-use evaluations
Coursebook selection: Context analysis; survey of learner needs; textbook analysis
Methods of textbook analysis and evaluation: Impressionistic method; checklist method; in-depth method
Criteria for evaluation: Media-specific criteria; content-specific criteria; age-specific criteria; local criteria
Close evaluation: Using a checklist; in-depth analysis
Coursebook-based teaching: Planning the course by selecting, rejecting, adding and changing related materials from the coursebook
Supplementation: Designing worksheets
Using authentic texts; exploiting internet sources; and designing materials for the web
Systematising materials design
Utilising learners’ language, learner-produced exercises and worksheets
The connections between materials and learning, ideology, culture, syllabus, method and research

Learning Outcome

Discuss the processes involved in evaluating, adapting and developing language teaching materials
Differentiate between the different approaches, criteria and/or methods of evaluating language teaching materials
Examine the connections between materials and learning, ideology, culture, syllabus, method and research
Evaluate the suitability of particular language teaching materials by applying the relevant criteria, methods and approaches
Plan a series of lessons by the judicious selection and adaptation of language teaching materials.
Design a series of language teaching materials suitable for a particular teaching context