Hello, my dear readers! I hope you all are well.
Today I'll inform you about data-driven learning, corpora, and language awareness tasks. I'll also present and explain the material, a worksheet, which was prepared by my friend Hilal and me. Hilal also has a great educational blog since we took the same course. You should certainly check her blog out!
Firstly, corpus (plural corpora) is the collection of written texts, which are linguistic data. And concordance is a particular word taken from any type of corpus.
Data-driven learning (DDL) is the type of learning that students are actively engaging in learning by searching and examining a corpus or corpora. The focus is generally on grammar and vocabulary. In DDL, they discover and examine through the corpora by themselves, and teachers help and guide them. Thus, language awareness tasks enable students to discover and discuss the knowledge they get with the help of data-driven learning.
In our material, our aim is the same. We decided to choose the 'many or much' topic because it may be confusing for learners at first. We used 'CANVA' to create this worksheet. On the first page, we created a brainstorming part to make them think about the countability of things. We wanted students to examine the two corpora and understand differences or rules on the second page. They are expected to discover the rules and fill in the table accordingly. Then on page 3, there is an activity in which they will decide whether they use 'many or much' with the help of given pictures.
In conclusion, students/learners will become an active part of learning by discovering the data themselves with the help of language awareness tasks.
Scroll sideways to examine the pages ;))
That's all for today. #Staysafe#
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