I. Authentic Materials: * Nunan (1989): “any material which has not been specifically produced for the purpose of language teaching.” (as cited in Macdonald, Badger &White, 2000) * Bacon & Finnemann (1990): “authentic materials are texts produced by native speakers for a non-pedagogical purpose.”
II. Authentic Vs Non-authentic Materials:
Authentic Materials * Language data produced for real life communication purposes. * They may contain false starts, and incomplete sentences. * They are useful for improving the communicative aspects of the language.
Non-Authentic Materials * They are specially designed for learning purposes. * The language used in them is artificial. They contain well formed sentences all the time. * They are useful for teaching grammar. (Adams, 1995; Miller, 2003)