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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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A Collaborative Writing Task: A Film Review!

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Hello again everyone! Again, we had a very engaging assignment to do: A film review! But... what is a film review? In a film review, you write about your opinions about a film to provide an overall opinion about it to other people; so that they can decide if they want to watch the movie or not. You also write about the components of the film like cinematography, plot, theme, acting, direction; were they well or were there points that should be improved? For this assignment, we were supposed to write a collaborative film review using Google Docs (a collaborative writing tool). Our audience was other university students. So, as Arda, Ozan and I, we watched the film, exchanged our ideas and wrote these on Google Docs. It was a very good experience to write my opinions using this kind of tool because it also enables me to notice the points I missed in the film, or something else; it doesn't matter. Moreover, as your intention in this activity is to provide an opinion to people about th...
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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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