What Are The Advantages Of Using Authentic Materials

2.4 The use of Authentic Materials in the Classroom Using unsuitable teaching materials make learners face difficulties in learning English. Learners need to be motivated to succeed in learning English; furthermore, teaching materials have to motivate and raise learners’ interest. If teaching materials are not enjoyable and motivating, learners will learn nothing. So, to help students learn better, using authentic materials is suggested by the researchers. Many researchers have studied the impact of authentic materials on learners and it shows that using authentic materials particularly in teaching English in classroom has been effective over the past decades. Thus, authentic material is useful to support language learning and teaching (Guariento and Morley, 2001; Patridge, 2001; Shrum and Glisan, 2000). Most of the researchers state that authentic materials help increase the learners motivation towards reading. For example, self-satisfaction and motivation show improvement after authentic texts is employed in the classroom (Otte, 2006 and Thanajaro, 2000). Authentic texts help motivate students learn English by making them feel that they are learning the real language (Guariento & Morely, 2001). One of the most important advantages of using authentic materials is that it is increases students’ motivation and respect

Referring to culture she states that authentic materials can represent the target language culture. As she mentions, currency of the authentic materials is an exclusive quality especially when the materials are driven from the media because the topics offered are of the “language in current use”. And finally she asserts that authentic materials are more challenging than artificial materials. The reason why authentic materials are useful in language teaching as cited in Richards (2001)