Abstract：Abstract: Current textbooks in use for Malay majors prove to have a serious problem of “separation of input from output”. In order to solve this problem, guided by the Production Oriented Approach (POA), this article reports a trial adaptation of the texts with the design of motivating phase as a focus. The article provides a detailed description on the design ideas and principles of motivating phase from three aspects: authenticity of communication, cognitive challenge and appropriate productive objectives and specifies the implementation of motivating phase. The practice of adaptation also proves that POA theory is applicable to the adaptation of textbooks of less commonly taught languages, which may solve the problems of unclear productive objectives, lack of motivating phase in the original textbooks, and "separation of learning and using".
Key words: Production-oriented Approach; Malay language teaching; adaptation of teaching materials; design of motivating phase
