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Upside Down Classes

  Greetings! Have you ever wondered what it would be like if homework and class switched places?   Well, I haven’t, but that is what I thought when I first heard about the flipped approach. It is a type of classroom practice where you assign your students with learning the subject of the class at home. For example, making them watch a video about it. And in the actual lesson you spend time practicing said subject. In language classes, where exposure to the language is critical and often difficult to obtain, this method can serve as a means to let students interact with the language as much as possible. However, listening to a teacher in person and watching a video of a lesson is not quite the same for most people so there is a risk of students not understanding the core subjects. In the Flipped Approach, a teacher can choose from a variety of options to make students learn the subject at home. One of those options is to record a video of them teaching the subject thems...

Designing a class through the embodiment of American English

Greetings! Have you ever used a corpus? It is basically a massive collection of written or spoken text to analyze language use. When presented with such a tool one cannot help but wonder "how can this be used to teach language?". So, people did, and they came up with Data Driven Learning.   As teacher candidates, me and my partners Berat , Mustafa and Abdülhamid  were tasked to create materials and a lesson plan using DDL. We used the Corpus of Contemporary American English to design a class that would make students discover the differences of the words "make" and "do". Materials were created using Canva. We made sure to provide sufficient instructions for the students to get the results they need from the corpus so that they can discover how make and do are used in context. We also created worksheets for them to practice their discoveries. Which also allows us to see if they successfully grasped the correct use of the words. I believe our material ...