>> So let's talk about these texts and I use texts,
I put it in quotes because a text doesn't simply mean
something written down.
A text can be a simple object.
A text can be a matroyshka.
A text can be a film, it can be anything that's conveying
meaning in our language and culture.
So we have created text.
Text authored by non-native speakers for non-native speakers
to achieve predetermined curricular goals.
This is what so many of us were brought up on.
An American writing a text in Russian so that I
in first year Russian could understand it.
Classic right?
[foreign language] Mom's at home, dad's at work.
La, la, la and I don't think I've ever uttered those
expressions in normative Russian in my life.
But there, there we go.
Semi-authentic text.
Text created by native and or non-native speakers,
based on an original language material but adapted
to fit curricular needs.
Now already a big step forward.
These are real life materials that we've toyed
around with a little bit to make them fit.
For example, a unit on past tense.
So we've toyed with the materials a little bit,
but they're authentic, from an authentic source.
And then there's good old authentic materials.
Text created by native speakers, for native speakers,
for consumption in a native environment.
The stuff we get in country.
A text written by a person, by a Chinese person
for another Chinese person to read or see,
watch and to be understood within the context of China.
That's authenticity and those, I want to posit,
are the texts we're trying more and more
to bring into our classes.