LEARNING WITH AI OR CORPUS? LETS DISCOVER !

HI EVERYONE AGAIN!!!

I hope everyone is doing okay. I realized that I've never asked how you guys were so I did felt bad as a blogger :((( I'm here again with our first assignment in the Current Issues in Teaching course, and in today's post, I'd like to share my experience designing an AI-enhanced, corpus-based material set and lesson plan according to the ASSURE model. This was a group project; I did it with my other two friends, Begüm and Halil. My part was designing activities according to Ma et al.'s first two principles, focusing on one of the grammar areas for learners: countable and uncountable nouns. Rather than teaching these through traditional rules, this material encourages students to discover patterns through real language use examples—and use AI as support for CBLP. 

You can click below the names to see our designed activities and our ASSURE model lesson plan:
>>>>> Uncountable or Countable??  (our first draft)
>>>>> Countable or Uncountable??? (our second draft)

I designed the first two activities to test students' knowledge using authentic corpus lines from online tools like SKELL or COCA. Learners guess whether nouns such as traffic, street, or furniture are countable or uncountable before writing their guesses into the AI prompt. Then the AI groups the sentences, highlights incorrect assumptions, and explains the patterns visible in the corpus data. In the second activity my aim was to get students to work on corpus- searching for patterns by themselves and discover it, and then collecting their concordance lines and using AI to sort them into linguistic categories (articles, quantifiers, plurality, no article). This activity enhances corpus use by AI categorizing the corpus data which students may struggle while doing it by hand. Also, it helps students to notice how form aligns with meaning in an authentic contexts.

Designing these tasks was kind of challenging because I needed to create visually engaging materials, and most importantly, I needed to make sure these activities were designed as AI integrated with corpus-based learning pedagogy—not separately. Thus, this part required great critical thinking, analyzing, and technology knowledge. Apart from these factors, I kind of enjoyed designing the layout. :))

These activities, however, when it comes to real-classroom implementation, may be challenging. Students may feel overwhelmed while using Corpus, as it has a complex form, which is why students should be guided by the instructor. Another reason is classroom technology can slow the process, or it cannot be accessible at all. Additionally, AI outputs can be biased or generalize beyond the data provided by the students, so teachers should monitor the process. Still, as I said, with guidance, these tasks provide an influential way to integrate AI and corpus-based exploration into the language classroom.

I hope you guys enjoyed reading this and gained some insight about corpus with me. Don't forget to take a look at my friends' blogs too because they are pretty good explainers, as much as me!
Have a good day or night; if you have a question, don't hesitate to comment!!
See you in another post. <3


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