Current Issues' Land in ELT

HEY EVERYONE!   The semester's last assignment is here :(((. Our task was designing AI-enhanced material design for EFL high school prep students and an Assure lesson plan related to our material design. Our language skill focus was writing, and designing the AI-enhanced writing task was such an insightful experience. The idea of students first identifying grammar mistakes in a single text on their own, then using AI to analyze and correct those errors, was a really intriguing idea, honestly, thanks to my brilliant teammates İren , Halil , and Mert . This material's main idea was students actively engaging with the task—first discovering mistakes independently, then using AI to verify their answers and understand how those errors could be fixed. This process not only helped them develop a deeper understanding of grammar but also showed them how AI can support language learning.  Overall, combining technology with language learning has, as always, turned out to be a powerful e...

  OKAY… HI AGAIN 👋 So here I am again, writing another blog post for the Current Issues in Teaching course—and honestly, at this point, blogging about our assignments feels like part of my personality. Today’s post is all about one of the most enjoyable (and slightly challenging) projects we’ve worked on so far: designing an AR/VR-based city exploration handout worksheet  and an ASSURE-model lesson plan for preparatory high school students. This project was a group work; I and my teammates— İren , Halil , and Mert —together we designed an interactive English lesson that takes students on a virtual trip to Paris, France . Our main focus was creating a meaningful learning experience by combining technology, language skills, and student-centered activities. We were responsible for selecting the AR/VR materials, designing the handout, and preparing an ASSURE lesson plan that clearly shows how and why technology is used in the lesson. You can access our ASSURE Lesson Plan a...

WELCOME BACK, GUYS!! I hoooooope everyone is doing well. I'm here again with our new assignment for the Current Issues in Teaching course, and in today’s post, I’ll be sharing my experience designing a flipped-classroom grammar teaching video narrated by us for preparatory high school students and an ASSURE-model lesson plan . This project was a group effort; I worked with my friends Begüm and Halil , and our responsibility was preparing the content of the video and designing pre- and in-class activities focusing on the simple past tense, teaching students outside of the classroom, and practicing content in the classroom. You can access our Assure Lesson plan and Flipped-classroom grammar teaching video by clicking on the names! Instead of teaching grammar through long explanations, our goal was to create a clear and visually engaging video that introduces learners to the past tense in a meaningful and functional way. We tried to show how Simple Past is not only about memorizi...