Reflection on Tutorial Task Week 8

The lesson for this week was about Materials Adaptation. There were 3 different adaptation techniques learned from this week lesson which are Masuhara & Tomlinson's, Maley's and McDonough & Shaw's. We were required to identify the similarities and differences between each techniques. Adaptation techniques teach us to practice a few necessary steps before we want to adapt a certain material. Teachers need to know what are their students' necessity and sometimes not all materials are suitable to be adapted in the classroom.

There are 3 levels of materials adaptation that teachers need to adhere:
- First level: Macro adaptation
- Second level: Adapting a unit
- Third level: Adaptation of specific activities in a unit

All of these levels work as a guidance to teachers in order to perform materials adaptation. I believe that Materials Adaptation is crucial and a necessary to be performed as there are elements in the materials need to be omitted, evaluated, modified, extended and so on. As the person who is in charge of their students, teachers have the right to accommodate instead of just blindly adapting a teaching materials.

After learning this lesson, I found that it is a good exposure for all of us as future teachers. It really should be taken into practice in order to achieve our aims and objectives as well as the school's and the Ministry's.