Materials for language awareness

 

Hello everybody! I want to give you some information about language awareness tasks and corpus. As you know, anybody hasn't learned his mother language with the help of explicit teaching. S/he discovered many of the rules about language by himself. While teaching English or any language, teachers need to take it into consideration. So, teachers need to produce language awareness tasks for their students, and corpus might be helpful while they are designing their tasks. Let's talk about what corpus is. Corpus is a collection of linguistic data of written texts or transcription of recorded speech.  It provides the data from which learners discover patterns for themselves. There are many website you can find corpus like Skell, Lextutor, and English-Corpora.org. Our task is creating a language awareness handout for students. Language awareness task is giving some grammar or vocabulary to explore our students and they are going to find out how to use these grammar rules or vocabulary. And we created a handout for our students with my friend Hazal. You can see our handout by clicking here. We will explain how to use Skell in the classroom. So, we didn't explain it. They are going to fill in the table with the help of corpus and discover the rules. Then, they will practice it with the help of the activities that are from controlled to semi-controlled.