Corpus-based Teaching Material

Hello everyone,

Today, I would like to tell you about the Corpus-based Teaching Material I prepared for the current issues in Elt course. Actually, this was a group work and we prepared it together with Melis (click her name to access to her blog).

The main purpose of preparing this material is to help students learn a grammar topic or vocabulary on their own using corpus data. Our target audience was secondary school students and we focused on teaching the difference between since and for as a grammatical topic. Thanks to this material, students will be able to see since and for in sample sentences, identify their differences, and finally reinforce the subject by doing relevant exercises.

The study material consists of four steps. In the first step, students' background information is questioned and they are given relevant examples. In the second step, students are asked to enter https://www.lextutor.ca/conc/eng/, which is a corpus data collection, search for relevant words there, and make a choice for each word among the results. In the third step, students need to describe the use of both words. In the fourth step, it is aimed to reinforce the subject for students through different exercises on the subject. Finally, at the bottom of the worksheet, there are visuals and instructions on how the system works to guide students.

One of the problems that may arise in the use of this material is based on grammar. Since since and for have other meanings, students may have difficulty finding the meaning that is being taught in this worksheet when searching for these words in the corpus. A second difficulty that students may encounter relates to the use of the website. The site has many functions, so students may experience confusion.

You can access our work here.

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