THE FIRST HANDOUT THAT I PREPARED

Hello my dear readers! As you see above the first task of this course was creating an inductive task based on the use of corpora. From my old high school English grammar book me and my friend Izel were searching for a unit which was given in a traditional deductive way. We chose "be to" & "be supposed to" unit as our topic and used the given examples in our material. Here you can see how this subject is taught in the book ⇩

While preparing this material I noticed how useful corpus can be.

Corpus is a contemporary technological tool and used for various different purposes. What benefited me and will benefit language teachers is that corpus enables reliable language analysis due to the fact that it consists of either written texts or a transcription of recorded speech which means the data of the language is collected in its natural context.

In our material we used corpus to make students explore the meanings and the  grammar rules of "be to" and "be supposed to". Then in exercise 2 and 3 the students practice these structures. And finally in exercise 4 they produce their own sentences using these structures.

Thanks to using corpus, instead of a traditional deductive teaching we can have a inductive teaching which enables learning to be more permanent.

WELCOME ONCE AGAIN

Hello my dear readers! 

Last semester I was posting about how to integrate Web 2.0 tools in language teaching. And I was using those tools as a student. It was for my Educational Technologies class.

This semester I’m going to use this blog for my new class, Material Design in ELT. This course is also about technology in connection with education but in a matter of designing materials as you can understand from the name of it. Therefore, I will be using technological tools as a teacher and I’m really excited about it. 

I hope me and my classmates can learn deeply and create successful examples of what we learn. I am looking forward to design and post my first material.

It’s good to be back!