GOT A LOT TO SAY ABOUT THIS ONE
Greetings; lads! Today I am back with an interesting activity I’ve prepared with my friends (Mert and Ozan), and that is a digital worksheet. Now, let’s talk about what we’ve been through, aye?
For
this task, we were asked to prepare a lesson plan following the ASSURE model by
paying close attention to its components and sub-components, and also a digital
worksheet activity with direct use of a corpus. Me and my friends tried our
best to follow the 4 key principles (test student knowledge, hands-on corpus
searches by students, inductive discovery by students, and output exercise)
proposed by Ma et al. (2021) for corpus utilization, to integrate this
technology into our design (the link could be found below). While we were
preparing this task, we’ve been through several problems, but the only one
worthy of mentioning is when we were choosing our topic. We first decided to
teach about “could” and “would” but later realised that it was not part of the
theme we chose (School Life). So, we went to the contents section and found
out about which grammatical items were taught in each theme and reached a
consensus on teaching “must” and “have to.” However, I would be lying if I were
to say I didn’t enjoy the process; I really did. It was nice to be free in our
choice of layer and what to include. I guess worksheets are one way to
compensate for the strictness of our profession. Nonetheless, there is one
thing I am quite concerned about if our activity were to be implemented in a
class, and it is the corpus activity. Although we chose CorpusMate to
facilitate the activity for its user-friendly interface and simple
functionality, it is hard to find appropriate sentences to grasp the topic.
This may lead the teacher to spend more time on this part and therefore have
limited time for the remaining exercises.
SO LONG 😊
Our Digital Worksheet
Our Lesson Plan
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uvoXhbG59vJsKUre86iQT7mZgi6uAzFAabzV5Ata1Yk/edit?usp=sharing
!AN UPDATE!
Sorry for the late reminder, lads, but some parts've been changed in our worksheet and also in our lesson plan. For the former one we've added a section to introduce what a corpus is, switched the corpus we used to SKELL from CorpusMate, enumerated the exercises for ease of organization, changed the colors of the tables in two of the exercises, and determined specific sentences for corpus use. Lastly, you can access the new version of our lesson plan through the link below.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N1omfzgR2EemDPwUSrhF1aRWMwVtGulpQAyNVknYHhE/edit?usp=sharing
