A Re-examination of the Use of Authentic Texts in the EFL Classroom

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The main purpose of this paper centres on forming an accurate assessment of the efficaciousness of authentic materials in the EFL classroom. Over the past few decades many papers and books within the field have been written and published by many scholars concerning this branch of inquiry. In this paper, first I will summarize some arguments which advocate using authentic materials in terms of their usefulness in language education. Then I will highlight certain problems of using authentic materials in EFL classes, which various scholars have indicated in their research and publications. In order to realize the purpose of this paper, that is, to determine the validity of authentic materials in English language education, I will analyze and interpret the results of the questionnaire survey. The questionnaire survey was conducted to investigate how differently students react to authentic and artificial materials. The results of the questionnaire reveal that students consider authentic materials and artificial materials to be equally interesting, and that many students have difficulty in listening to genuine, raw, uncensored texts, although progressive preparatory exercises were introduced in the course of my research in order to make the texts more accessible to learners as stated in Little and Singleton (1991).
桃山学院大学の論文
1998-12-21