Authentic Materials In Foreign Language Teaching. Authentic materials provide your students with well authentic language. While it s of course necessary to approach many grammar topics with more traditional textbooks using authentic materials in the target language has many varied benefits.
It can also be useful to elicit genuine responses from learners. Authentic materials can be extremely useful when teaching a foreign language class. Authentic texts can be quick and easy to find.
By dealing with authentic texts our learners are grappling with real language in a real life context.
It can also be useful to elicit genuine responses from learners. Authentic materials and authenticity in foreign language learning volume 40 issue 2 alex gilmore. 2002 2009 on applied linguistics and language teaching with specific reference to l2 german part 2. Authentic material is any material written in english that was not created for intentional use in the english language classroom.