NATIVE AND NON NATIVE RESOURCES

Searching for and choosing teaching resources can be very contradictory. On one hand, teachers may be overwhelmed about the enormous amount and variety of resources they can access through different means, both digital and traditional.
However, when finding teaching resources adapted to the needs of a particular group of students, or even for CLIL methodology, the wide range of possibilities mentioned before is dramatically reduced.
As Kelly (2014) points out: “The lesson is simply this: CLIL is easier and more effective if you have ‘custom-made’ resources and can be much harder and less effective without them.”

When talking about native resources I refer to web pages in English, or text books, that follow the curriculum from the original country, most of the cases are British or American. In order to adapt these resources to our classroom we have to compare the different curricula and make the correspondent equivalences between levels. Sometimes the best option is choosing lower level resources for the language level will be accesible to our students.