CORPUS & ASSURE

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     Hello everyone, this is Melek here. We completed the first assignment of the term for our Current Issues course. This time, we were supposed to create a lesson material based on the use of ''Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)'' and create a lesson plan with the ASSURE model. 

     To briefly inform you about what are these, I can give you these simple explanations: ''The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)'' is one of the largest corpora of American English with over one billion words from various sources collected from 1990 to 2020.'' One can look for words in their authentic contexts and the words that they are frequently used with, in other words their collocations.  On the other hand ASSURE model is ''designed to help teachers plan lessons that effectively integrate classroom use of technology and media.''   

     For the assignment, we worked as a group. Honestly, the design process was fun since I had the chance to work with my dear friends however, trying to learn COCA and integrate it into a lesson and create a material was a bit challenging and boring. Because the interface design of the website was quite confusing and given the fact that we, university students, struggled with figuring it out, it is inevitable that the students suffer as well. This is one of the aspects of what might happen during the application of the worksheet in the classroom.

     I believe this website needs some improvements to be used by everyone. Other than that I enjoyed the process of exploring the results when a words was being searched. Without futher ado, I would like to show you our work. Here you can see them:

For COCA material click here

For ASSURE LESSON PLAN click here


SOME VISUALS FROM THE ASSIGNMENT:






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