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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