Theoretical problems of the content of teaching foreign languages

Student-produced materials

Teachers can ask the students to produce simple maps that they know as the basis for an activity. In this way, students are then using their own knowledge & personal background to produce learning materials for their classmates.

Students as materials

When we see the learners as materials, we can also use our methods to make learning enjoyable. In doing so, teachers could, for instance: ask a student to close his/her eyes & describe what someone else is wearing; describe what someone else is wearing until the rest of us can recognize that person; divide the class into pairs and ask each pair to do one the above