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Human resources
The term “human resources” refers to the main actors in the educational process:
teachers, students, and authorities. Taking into account the Ecuadorian educational
context, English teachers and English students belong to the human resources
category. For the achievement of educational objectives, it is important
that teachers be well-prepared and students willing or predisposed to learn (Araujo,
2016).
ADVANTAGES
1. Materials help learners to develop confidence
2. Materials expose the learners to language in authentic use
3. Materials be culturally relevance
4. Materials stretch/challenge the learners
5. Materials build intercultural awareness
Contextualization
A key criticism of commercial materials, particularly those produced for the world-
wide EFL market is that they are necessarily generic and not aimed at any specific
group of learners or any particular cultural or educational context. The possible lack
of ‘fit’ between teaching context and coursebook has been expressed thus: “Our
modern coursebooks are full of speech acts and functions based on situations which
most foreign-language students will never encounter… ‘Globally’ designed
coursebooks have continued to be stubbornly Anglo-centric. Appealing to the world
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