Authentic Non-authentic

 Are also known as real-life or genuine materials.  Are teaching materials which are
 As materials which are aimed at native speakers’ made and designed for teaching
daily life and not for teaching purposes. purposes only.
 Klickaya (2004) characterizes authentic materials as  These materials are planned,
materials which expose the real world and how it is designed, and produced based on
used in the target language. the curriculum and policy in each
Peacock (1997) identify real-life materials as country, in this context, Indonesia.
materials which are created and used for a social  These textbooks are also built upon
purpose in the language community of the native the learner's needs and ability.
speakers.
Advantages Disadvantages Advantages Disadvantages
 Genuine materials  These materials are not  The non-  The non-
enable learners to created for learning. authentic authentic
experience the real  They can confuse the materials such as materials are
language and have a study method, because textbooks are designed and
closer interaction with designed by the simplified by
that unedited
teacher based
the target language. authentic materials are teachers, it
on the learners'
 Learners can feel directly too difficult to capability and makes non-
how the language they understand by learners language level. authentic
learn is employed in the  The materials given in  Those non- materials seem
real situation. the classroom are authentic unnatural.
 Once the learners are genuine and delivered materials are  Learners should
familiar with the without any editing argued as more be exposed to
language during the process. culturally the variety of
appropriate for language form
classroom practice, it will  The words used which
the learners. and vocabulary.
be much easier for them may be too hard for
to employ it in the real the English as a Foreign  He claims that
simplification of
situation. Language As a result non-authentic
 Real-life materials are this will lead to teaching
regarded effective to frustration and materials will
motivate learners in confusion by the increase the
learning English. learners as claimed difficulty of the
 Can increase learners task
communicative  using authentic
materials is not
competence.
to achieve a
complete
understanding