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may well be total immersion in the target language environment without an instructor.
e. Advantages of Using Authentic Materials
The use of authentic materials has five main advantages. They have a positive effect on learners’ motivation, provide authentic cultural information, and
provide exposure to real language. Are related more closely to learners’ needs, and support a more creative approach to teaching Richards, 2001 cited in
Kilickaya: 2004 Firstly, authentic materials are claimed to bring the learners’ motivation an
active effect in a foreign language classroom. Learners are motivated and interested by introducing and utilizing natural authentic materials which are
considered to be more interesting or stimulating than invented ones Fei and Yu- Feng, 2008
Second, authentic materials provide authentic cultural information. They give the readers the opportunity to gain real information and know what is going
on in the world around them so that they can gain intrinsic educational values Berardo, 2006; Martinez, 2002, cited in Oguz and Bahar, 2008: 331.
Third, authentic materials provide exposure to real language. They enable learners feel that they are learning in the target language Berardo, 2006: 62;
Kilickaya, 2004. Fourth, Oguz and Bahar 2008 state that authentic materials are related
more closely to learners’ needs in the real world. Authentic materials enable the
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students to be more active, develop their higher-order thinking, and get information in the expertise level. This is because the more realistic the language,
the more easily it can cater the range of proficiency levels found in many classes. The last, authentic materials support a more creative approach to teaching.
Using authentic materials can be an informative manner of communication that is conducive to interactive learning. It can be effectively linked with ways of helping
students to be more independent learners. For example, whwn students have to make prediction and guess using reference books, use authentic materials can be
an effective one Hwang, 2005
3. Teaching Present Past tense Using Authentic Materials
The aim of English learning according to the school-based curriculum 2006 is to achieve students communicative competence. The students are
expected to master five competencies: linguistic competencies vocabulary, grammar, punctuation, intonation, etc., socio-cultural competence the way to
communicate such as language style, politeness, etc., discourse competence contexts, strategic competence the competence to overcome problems or
difficulties in communication, and functional competencies listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Those competencies can be achieved through three aspects,
i.e. cognitive, psychomotor, and affective. Teaching present and past tense with authentic materials as the media is
hoped to stimulate students’ interest to English subject. And the perfect way to combine the application of authentic materials in teaching present past tense is
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