Corpus-Based Material

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      Hello!! It has been a long time since my last post. Now I am a 3 grade student in ELT. I passed my Educational Technologies course and now I am going to use my blog for my new course; "Current Issues in ELT." For this week's assignment, my friend Büşra Hazal and I prepared a corpus-based worksheet. Our worksheet included steps and activities that encouraged student and teacher corpus use. Our grammar focus on the worksheet was frequency adverbs based on unit 4 from MEB's prep class book. Our vocabulary focus was comparing always and never and their uses. Our main objective was to prepare a worksheet for students to practice adverbs of frequencies and integrate corpus work into their learning process. After completing this worksheet our students will be more acquainted with corpus and how it can be used. They will also be able to start using frequency adverbs in sentence frames. However, there are also some difficulties and problems students might face while filling out our worksheet. Having trouble in using corpus and technology or the lack of other frequency adverbs that they learned in unit 4 can be listed as the problems. Problems in using technology can be solved with their teacher's help. Attached you can find the link to my friend Büşra Hazal's blog and to our worksheet. 

Click here to see our worksheet and Büşra Hazal's blog.

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