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Second Task of the Course: The Flipped Classroom Assignment!

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Hi everyone! I hope you are all good! In this post, I am going to tell you the flipped classroom approach and our assignment related to it. So, let's start with the approach. In this approach, the teacher provides the students a digital video that introduces the content to them before the class. After they watched the video, there are some exercises for the learners to practice the content. And when they come to class, they again do another activity related to the content they learned; and of course, like everything, this approach has advantages and disadvantages. It provides the students advantages like learning the content in their own pace, rewinding the video when they cannot understand something, or providing the teachers the chance to provide individual support to students. However, there are also challenges. The teacher may not be sure if the students watched the video or not, or, there may be problems about some students' access to technology. Now, let's talk about ...
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First Task of the Course: Creating an AI-enhanced Corpus-based Teaching Material

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Hello everyone, I hope you are all good! In this post, I am going to talk to you about the first assignment of the course: Creating an AI-enhanced corpus-based teaching material. C orpus means " a large and systematically organized collection of  texts or language samples that are digitally stored and  exploited using specialized software" (Kurt, 2025, p.5).  For the assignment, we were expected to create a teaching material that I mentioned in the first sentence and a lesson plan based on the ASSURE model. We were expected to prepare these two for the target group of EFL learners in a high school in Türkiye. As Arda, Ozan and I, we chose the School Life theme from the preparatory year students' book called "Uptone" and chose to prepare the worksheet based on the topic of "must" and "have to". In the designing process of the worksheet, we followed Ma et al.'s principles for corpus-based learning and teaching materials. Firstly, the studen...
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4th and the Last Assignment of the Course: Creating an AI Integrated Teaching Material

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Hello everyone, I hope you are all good! In this post, I am going to talk to you about our last assignment of this course. For the assignment, we were supposed to work in groups and create an AI integrated teaching material for EFL high school prep students. (A2 level) As Halil, İren, Sude and me; we prepared a digital worksheet. As the content of the material, we were supposed to choose a focus (reading, listening, speaking or writing) from the UPTONE students' book volume 1. We chose our focus as writing and decided to focus on Simple Present Tense from the "School Life" unit. On the first page of our worksheet, the students watch a video about Simple Present Tense embedded in a QR code, and then they complete four fill in the blanks questions regarding Simple Present Tense. On the next page, there is a text in which there are mistakes concerning the usage of the tense, and the students are asked to underline these. On the next page, students are supposed to ask ChatGPT...
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