“Authentic Materials in Education” Webinar with Mrs.Paulina Andruszkiewicz-Glińska

 On Monday the 16th of May we had another webinar with Mrs.Paulina, it was our second webinar with her and the topic was "Authentic materials in education".

Authentic material is any material written in English that was not created for intentional use in the English language classroom. Using this content to teach the English language can make the learning process even more engaging, imaginative and motivating for students. The presenter also said that  authentic material are everywhere, which makes it easy to find, and simple for learners to practice English in their own time. Remember that it isn’t limited to articles from newspapers and magazines. Songs, tv shows, radio and podcasts, leaflets, menus – anything written in English constitutes authentic material. She has given several examples as toothpaste and asked how and where we can use it. Many of our groupmates had ideas as hygiene, shopping and etc. There I thought how limited I am thinking, because we can find many objects and connect it to the lessons. and make them more engaging. 

Moreover, Mrs.Paulina gave us some reasons and "secrets" how to make our classes more joyful and involving, if we stick only to the coursebook it will probably be boring, so that is the main reason to use authentic materials in our lessons with young learners. Authentic materials also help to expose the students to real-world English usage.

Personally i liked the webinar very much, it was very informative as her first webinar on classroom management. It is always good to hear and note down experiences of other people to filter and implement it in our lessons.