Making it Real: Authenticity, Process and Pedagogy

Autor/inn/en	Badger, Richard; MacDonald, Malcolm
Titel	Making it Real: Authenticity, Process and Pedagogy
Quelle	In: Applied Linguistics, 31 (2010) 4, S.578-582 (5 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-6001
DOI	10.1093/applin/amq021
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Communication (Thought Transfer); Teaching Methods; Second Language Instruction; Second Language Learning; Reader Text Relationship; Instructional Materials; Reading Materials + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Communication; thought; Kommunikation; Gedanke; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Lehrmaterial; Lehrmittel; Unterrichtsmedien
Abstract	Authenticity has been a part of the intellectual resources of language teaching since the 1890s but its precise meaning and implications are contested. This commentary argues for a view of authenticity which recognizes the limits of the concept as a guide for pedagogic practice and acknowledges the fact that texts are processes rather than products. First, authenticity may help to decide what texts not to use in class but provides no guidance about which authentic texts are, for example, motivating. Secondly, the term authenticity is misleading because it leads us to conceptualize authenticity as the bringing of a text from a communicative event into a classroom. Texts are the result of an interaction between what we might term a proto-text, sound waves, or marks on paper or screen, and a language user. The authenticity of a text in the classroom depends on the similarity between the way it is used in the classroom and the way it was used in its original communicative context. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10