CREATING A CORPUS-BASED MATERIAL

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Hi everyone, welcome to my blog!

In this post, I am going to write about my experience while creating a corpus-based teaching material. I did this material with Betül. 

The first step was finding a topic from the given book. This book has 20 but it was hard to find an appropriate topic to use with material. I searched for the units from 11 to 20 and Betül searched from 1 to 10. After the searches, we decided to use the differences between -ed/-ing adjectives. We chose this because it is very confusing and especially in here, Turkey, students mostly do not know the correct usage. After completing this material, students will be able to distinguish between the adjectives -ed and -ing.

After that, we continued with creating material. This process was fun because we used the website Canva to create material and we considered the ages of the target audience which is 13-14. We tried to use suitable elements and stickers for our students. 

When this corpus-based teaching material is used in the classroom would be useful for students. But it also has some problems, one of them is access to the internet. In Turkey, unfortunately not every school and class have access to the internet or it is very limited. Another problem is devices, not every student has access to a digital device. 

Overall, this was quite an informative task. I learned how to use corpus and how to integrate it into teaching. 

You can find our material right here.

Stay tuned! :)











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