First Task of the Course: Creating an AI-enhanced Corpus-based Teaching Material
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 Turkey. 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 student...