Designing Corpus Activity & Assure Lesson Plan

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For this project, we wanted to make lesson plans as well as teaching material that integrates corpus tools and AI in helping 10th-grade Turkish EFL Students master the differences between must and have to. Our focus was to implement a pedagogy that shifts the emphasis from traditional rule-based approaches to encouraging students to find and explore patterns in the corpus data. We narrowed it down to SKELL and formulated tasks that prompted students to analyze authentic data, structure features, and function. Additionally, we incorporated ChatGPT into our lesson plans, which allowed students to frame their hypotheses and receive feedback based on their writing.



While some of us designed the lesson based on the ASSURE framework, others prepared the Corpus Practice, which helped the entire unit to overcome the imagined challenges that might arise from students. The documents moved from simple noticing to a sequence of tasks designed for advanced sorting and interpretation, and finally to controlled output. Active scaffolding was smooth with the help of color codes, QR codes, and short instructions, which I thought was a great touch to add.


Implementing this material in a real classroom might still cause some challenges, in my opinion. Technological reliability is probably the biggest one, since both SKELL and ChatGPT require a stable internet connection. Bad Wi-Fi might be an obstacle during the corpus-search and AI-check stages for both students and teachers. Also, the learners’ digital skills will possibly be different, and while some students might be able to navigate SKELL and copy-paste the prompts with no issue, others might require more assistance, which also has the potential to drag the class down to a slower pace. It might also become more challenging to manage a classroom with a huge group of students all using their phones at the same time. However, I still believe that the potential benefits of the classroom challenges will positively impact students, as the use of AI in the classroom facilitates a more evidence-based, interactive approach to grammar where students learn through usage rather than basic memorization. Thank you for reading!!

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