1. Contrived experience:
Definition:
Make use of a representative
models or mock-ups of reality for
practical reasons and so that we can
make the real life accessible to the
student’s perception and understanding.

2. Contrived material:
Definition:
Reading material prepared by
individuals or committees in which
unfamiliar language items are
interspersed among known words so that
students are helped to guess at the
meaning of the new words from the
surrounding familiar words.

3. SPECIMEN

4. Definition:
• A part, or a small portion, of
anything, or one of a number of
things, intended to exhibit the
kind and quality of the whole, or
of what is not exhibited.

5. In Education:
• A portion of a thing or a
representative of a class of thing
removed from its natural setting
for analysis and study.

6. Example:
Mona Lisa

7. Example:
Pieta

8. Advantages:
 Using specimen as a tool for learning maybe
helpful because students can easily
memorize/recall the concept.
 Representing also a specimen is one of
enjoyable way of storing new knowledge.
 It may help us to represent an idea.

9. Disadvantages:
 The lesson will just focus on that particular
specimen.
 The students can’t determine the main idea.
 There are some students cannot easily and
automatically comprehend base on what is
presented, they might need some possible
explanation.

10. Reported by:
Roberose
Rojas

11. Thank you!!!