Authentic Materials
One of the important principles of communicative language teaching is that authentic language should be used in instruction whenever possible (Omaggio-Hadley, 1993). But some of the problems are determining what authentic materials are, why it is important to use authentic material in the classroom, and what are the sources for authentic materials? Taken from Peacock (1997), the definition of authentic materials is the materials that have been produced to fulfill some social purpose in the language community. Martinez (2002) defined that “Authentic would be material designed for native speakers of English used in the classroom in a way similar to the one it was designed for” (p.1). In this section, the advantages of using authentic materials in language teaching will be explored, and also the drawbacks of using them will be discussed.