Instructions for the development of audio material

1. What elements should be considered?
Purpose… always purpose
Time
Level
Quality: in the content, the English usage and the
recording
Updatedness
Developing audio material

2. Purpose
Audio material can be used:
To present a topic (content, vocabulary, organizational
patterns, motivation…)
To develop a topic (task input, comprehension,
production…)
To evaluate a topic (identification, inference,
transcription…)

3. Time
An audio class can´t take a full period.
Aspects to consider:
Lenght
Previous and posterior activities
Participation and students´ engagement.

4. Level
Avoid motivational problems and frustration.
Graduate the tasks, not the speaking pace or language
complexity.
Be aware of the different accents and their implications.

5. Quality.
It´s not only about the structure used.
It´s about the sound.
It´s about the accents and tones.
It´s about the vocabulary used
It´s about the coherence with the task.

6. Updatedness
Why do you think students will love it or not? Avoid
prejudice.
Not because you like something, your students must like
it.
Why listening to an old referent? The world moves all the
time!