Developing Corpus-Based Teaching Materials 2

  Hello everyone, welcome to my blog again. In this process, I didn't encounter witth so complicated problem because our teacher gave feedback to us. Firstly, I had arranged myself for the flipped language classroom. I had arranged my intonation pronounciation and my emphasis part. 

I have worked to teach the topic as a briefly and clearly. While I was working on this process, my friends helped and showed me different ways and technics for the flipped language teaching. Teaching English with the flipped language teaching was very special experience for me. The thing that I mostly affected was creating a very huge time for the exercises in the classroom. In the other hand, While we are teaching English from the screen, I had to teach English very briefly and effectively. In the first part of the process, it was hard because I had to think about how am i going to teach about this topic in a very short time. But I dealt with this problem and I arranged very suitable video for teaching English. In this link you can see our Flipped language teaching video.:) 

Developing Corpus-Based Teaching Materials

 The first stage involved familiarizing myself with corpus linguistics principles, tools, and applications. I explored corpora the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)  to understand their structure and functionality. I also engaged with concordance tools to analyze patterns, including collocations, frequency, and context-specific language usage.

 I wanted to use collocations involving “make” and “do,” as these are commonly misused by learners. This phase demanded careful filtering of the vast data available, ensuring examples were not only relevant but also pedagogically appropriate.Using insights from the corpus, I created exercises that integrated real-world usage patterns. Activities included fill-in-the-blank tasks, matching. Each task was designed to promote both linguistic accuracy and communicative competence.

Also, another point of the corpus-based teaching is the sheer volume of data within a corpus posed challenge. While the richness of examples was valuable, narrowing down the information to what was most relevant for teaching objectives was a time-intensive process. Despite the challenges, the process of developing and implementing corpus-based materials proved to be a valuable professional development experience. In conclusıon, It was a different experince for me. I can think to integrate this approach in my next class.