Scientific ideas of young scientists

Suitability of Content. Does the text interest the student? Is it relevant to the student’s needs? Does 
it represent the type of material that the student will use outside of the classroom? 
Exploitability. Can the text be exploited for teaching purposes? For what purpose should the text be 
exploited? What skills/strategies can be developed by exploiting the text? 
Readability. Is the text too easy/ difficult for the student? Is it structurally too demanding /complex? 
How much new vocabulary does it contain? Is it relevant? 
Results and Discussions. There are a number of advantages of using authentic materials in the 
classroom include: 
- having a positive effect on student motivation; 
- giving authentic cultural information; 

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- exposing students to real language; 
- relating more closely to students’ needs; 
- supporting a more creative approach to teaching. 
These are what make us excited and willing to use authentic materials in our classrooms, but while 
using them, it is inevitable that we face some problems. Richards [3] notes that authentic materials 
often contain difficult vocabulary, complex structures which can often create problems for the teacher 
too. The main problem with authentic materials is that if the wrong type of text is chosen, the 
vocabulary may not be relevant to the learner’s needs and complex structures can create difficulties. 
Conclusion. To conclude, when selecting of authentic materials are to be used in the classroom, the 
teacher needs to take into consideration: authentic texts should motivate, give a sense of achievement 
when learners understand and encourage further reading. One of the main reasons for using authentic 
materials in the classroom is the goal of instruction in reading is to develop communicative 
competence, everyday reading materials such as train schedules, newspaper articles, travel and 
tourism websites, daily updated blog posts become appropriate classroom materials. Therefore, 
reading materials must be authentic when selecting texts for reading lessons.