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Corpus based teaching experience

 


Hi everyone, welcome to my blog. 

Today I am going to talk about an activity I designed using the corpus. 

Firstly, let me talk about the corpus. Corpus is a big resource containing the use of words, phrases, collocations, and other types of words. You can find plenty of sentences using corpora and you can search for anything you want. 

Our assignment was to prepare a lesson/activity in which the students would use corpus. Actually, they were to use the corpus for solving the activities and learning. 

Now, I am going to talk about my experience while designing a corpus-based teaching activity.



Before designing my activity, I needed to think about the students and their needs. Because corpus-based activities are new for the students, they may be discouraged easily. That's why the introduction and purpose shouldn't be ignored. I took these criteria into account and gave importance to visuals. However, it was demanding to find a suitable worksheet. It took me an hour. In the end, I was able to find the worksheet I had been looking for. 

Another difficulty I faced through the process was how I would encourage the students to complete the activity. Because they were easily distracted and lost. To overcome this, I tried to create coherence. For example, the same type of fonts and colors throughout the whole activity, basic and minimalist background, and simplicity. 

All in all, I believe that corpus-based learning activities should be paid much attention to. Because they provide learners to see words and phrases in the context which makes learning permanent and effective.

You can reach my activity through using the link below

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FfF_yF-rdWK3EMvSWLvmRTbdtyRw_8Qd/view?usp=drivesdk





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