CHALLENGES IN MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT

Teachers should be able to develop materials because at times the commercial books used at schools do not include some pieces of knowledge the pupils have to learn. This paper attempts to describe the challenges faced by the students of English Department Unesa in developing materials before internship at secondary schools as student teachers. Being novices, they found challenges in three stages of material development: making the book cover, outlining and writing the contents of the book. The students’ original works were presented in this paper to exemplify the challenges