Abstract:

Books are not sufficient as a material for an effective learning in modern language learning/teaching. We need certainly to extra materials and documents. We can classify these documents as written, visual and audial. But, we see that some of these documents are said “authentic”. The authentic documents “visual or audial, are not prepared for classroom, but created for the purpose of fulfilling a function of communication and information, a real language concept, is the name which is given to all type of tools” (Atasaven,1988:191). These authentic documents increase the interest and motivation of the learners. These documents which are giving an opportunity both visual and auditory to the learners increase the number of sensory organs used in language learning. It should be noted that the number of sensory organs involved in education are closely linked to the quality and permanence of effective learning. In our study, we tried to examine the usage of authentic document in application of co-action oriented method. We dealed the documents classified written authentic documents, audial authentic documents and visual authentic documents and their limitations and contributions to listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. Also, we studied these documents’ benefits for learning grammar, phonetic and vocabulary.

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