Özet:

Online education has gained acceleration especially with the developments in ICT. This model of instruction is now widely seen in many fields, and language education is no exception. Nowadays, many institutions are giving language courses online. In ELT Departments, there have been material development courses for prospective English teachers. However, creating online materials is not an issue dealt effectively in these courses. There have been few books and articles providing information to ELT teachers about the material development process with a technology-oriented approach. As these teachers will most likely give online English courses in the future, the curriculum of these courses should include online material development issues. The aims of this study are to investigate the fundamentals of material development for online English courses and produce a set of practical recommendations to the teachers, in particular to ELT teachers.

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