Hello my future colleagues, today I am going to tell you about creating a corpus-based teaching material.
Creating a teaching material and worksheets for middle
school students using a corpus-based approach has been an exciting experience
for me. We started by putting together a mix of real-world examples to make the
material more authentic and relatable. To bring everything to life, we used
Canva. Canva made it easy to turn our teaching ideas into visually appealing
and easy-to-follow materials. Its simple and user-friendly features allowed me
to add colors, visuals, and interactive elements, making the learning
experience more engaging for students. The combination of using a diverse
language collection and Canva's design flexibility not only made the material
look good but also helped students understand English in a more practical way.
This experience taught me the importance of corpus-based teaching materials and
blending creative content with design tools to make learning enjoyable and
effective for middle schoolers.
Our target audience was 6th grade middle schoolers. Our
focus was generally on vocabulary. The first activity was constructing
sentences with the given words. With this activity, students will be able to
construct sentences related to context. We also wanted students to do this
activity with a friend, so that they will be able to learn working together and
practice cooperative learning. For the last activity we made students prepare
an invitation card. Students will be able to make an invitation and organize an
event with this activity.
Besides the problems that may occur because of the lack of technology access, there are some other problems that may occur while using this material. Some students may struggle with generating creative ideas for their invitation cards. They may have different proficiency levels so we have to choose the vocabulary that will be suitable for all the students. Students might find it challenging to construct grammatically correct and varied sentences. Lastly, preparing an invitation card may take longer than expected, so that may lead to time constraints.
It was a great experience for me, and working with my friend Şevval Yılmaz was also fun. Here is our corpus-based teaching material if you want to have a look, and here is my friend Şevval’s blog. See you all!
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