MY CORPUS BASED TEACHING MATERIAL!

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Hello my friends and welcome back to my blog!

 Today I am going to be talking about my experience of creating a corpus-based teaching material for the first time. For this assignment, we were supposed to choose a teaching unit from an English coursebook that is used by preparatory year students in Turkey. Me and my pair (serra) chose the difference between the adjectives ending with -ed and -ing (to give an example, bored/boring) from Unit 5. The reason is that we as Turkish EFL students have found it hard to differentiate between these usages when we started learning English. Thinking that our target audience may also struggle with this issue, we wanted to design our material on this topic. 

 With this corpus-based material, our students will be able to have a chance to use technology effectively in the language classroom as well as take part in the discovery learning process which is an important component of 21st century learning.

 Designing the corpus-based material was a bit challenging. After deciding our topic, we started the designing process on Canva. Although there were different templates that we could edit and use, we decided to create our own authentic design which took us hours of work. We have worked together on our project by sharing the editing link which enabled us to see the changes instantly and work simultaneously. We discussed the age of our target students and tried not to make our material neither too childish nor boring. I would like to use the material that we created in my own class one day. As long as our students have a digital device and internet connection, I don't think that it would be a challenging task to complete as we have provided clear instructions. 

 Although it was not an easy assignment and we had to sit in front of our computers for hours, I have learned a lot through this task and I am happy to see that I can actually design and create my own teaching materials now. 

I will be sharing the link of our teaching material here. I would appreciate it if you shared your comments with me! 



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