Adapting materialsTaken from McDonough, J & Shaw, C. (2003) adapted by Agudelo, J.,

Cardona, D., Velasquez, A.

Students needs

Match

•Why do we adapt?

Congruence

•What do we adapt?

Factors to consider when adapating

material.

External

Characteristics

Teaching situations

Chapters

internal

content

organization

consistency

Procedures

Personalize Individualize

localize

Techniques

Ho

w

Adding

Deleting

Modifying

simplifying

Re-ordering

Applied to content areas

Languagepractice

texts

skillsClassroom

management