A Proposed Model for the Design of Self-Learning Language Materials

Abstract

Course books and other aids play a major role as facilitators of learning in both educational institutions and for the individuals who wish to learn on their own. Despite several studies done and models designed on the nature and actualization of self learning, the models display diverse as well as common components; furthermore, when the work on the nature of educational materials is investigated, their required properties seem to have been gathered outside a desirable systematisation. Among the shortcomings of such disorganisation, different terms to denote the same concept and a lack of accuracy in categorisation can be mentioned only as a few. In the present article using the studies in the literature, the necessity of a model for educational aids is validated, and the basic points of such a model are set out. As a consequence, the structure of the model can be further discussed  and presented for evaluation.