Ciao!!!!

How are you, everyone? I hope you’re all doing great after the midterm exams. Welcome to my first experience with the task assigned in our Current Issues in Teaching class. This assignment was both fun and challenging, and I can’t wait to tell you all about it!

Focusing on a grammar topic using corpus will be my first task on my blog, so I'm very excited. let's get started! Our grammar topic is the "for/since" distinction for high school students. In this material we created using the corpus, me and my group friends, Meryem Dilara Demirkaynak  and Eda Karaca   designed the material ourselves. We designed it to suit the age of the students. We added colors and visuals to make the material more fun and not boring. In its final form, our material was intensely colorful and descriptive. Click here to take a look.

We create our material using the COCA and Canva. By combining these two programs, we aimed to prepare examples suitable for real life. In this way, we make the lesson more meaningful and help students see grammar through practical applications from daily life.  Just click here to review the material we have prepared.

It was really fun to use this material to bring out creativity in education. I realized once again that technology can be used in every field of education. Combining and harmonizing language with technology is of course exciting, but some problems may arise during implementation. We also encountered these problems, fortunately, we solved the problem as a result of our research. When students do not know how to use the material, this can scare them.  First, after explaining to them what corpus is, then we used filters to prevent this and explained all the steps carefully and step by step to avoid any problems.

To sum up what I wrote, learning and teaching what corpus is was a very different experience for me. I now understand better how useful corpus is and I can't wait to use it in my lessons in the future. Stay tuned for more updates and reflections!

That’s all for now—see you in the next post!

(The image on the page was generated by AI)