Materials Use Outside Language Classrooms: Influencing Factors of Materials Use

Abstract

Materials use does not merely occur inside classrooms, but in the continuum, even outside classrooms. Through reflecting on their practices of materials use, teachers made further decisions on either repeating or modifying their schemes of materials use in the following classes. According to the analysis of the teachers’ pre-lesson and post-lesson interviews, teachers interacted with their curriculum materials in relation to four issues: (1) features of curriculum materials, (2) students’ interests, needs and responses during and after classes, (3) teachers’ factors, including teacher agency of more effective use of the curriculum materials, and teacher knowledge in materials use and (4) the contextual factors. In this chapter, these factors influencing teachers’ further pedagogical decisions on materials use will be delineated with concrete evidence. At the end of the chapter, a conceptual map will be portrayed to present the mediated relations in materials use outside classrooms.