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Ferit Kilickaya, author of the article Authentic Materials and Cultural Content in EFL Classrooms said that teachers should use authentic materials in the classrroms since this will: have a positive effect on learner motivation, provide authentic cultural information, provide exposure to real language, relate more closely to learners needs and support a more creative approach to teaching.
On the other hand, sometimes these materials have a different language, unneeded vocabulary items and complex language structures, which give teachers in lower leve classes, a lot of work and trouble. Nevertheless, they should be used at post-intermediate level, since most students master a wide range of vocabulary in the target language and all of the structures. Also, learners feel better with authentic materials helping them involve in real language, and encourage them to read for pleasure especially topics of their interest. Students should be aware that learning a language is not just learning its grammatical rules, vocabulary items and so on.
I agree because using authentic materials, students will be dealing with real world situations since that represents have them reading newspapers, magazines, watching videos, listening to talks or discussions and so on.
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