Current Issues' Land in ELT

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) >>>>> ...

                                                    WELCOME BACK AGAIN!!! Hey everyone! My name is Sude, and I'm currently studying ELT at Marmara University, and I'm in my 3rd year.  I am here to write that this semester I'm taking a course named ''Current Issues in Teaching,'' and for that course I will be using my blog as a continuum for my ICT course blog. In this course I am taking, we will be studying our understanding of the importance of technology in foreign language classrooms and also current issues in teaching in the ELT field by means of the effects/integration of technology in foreign language classrooms. Thus, I will be sharing what I learned from this course and my assignments with the hope that these may be beneficial for more pre-service English teachers who are studying and ready to learn more!!

Hey everyone, this is my final blog post for this semester :(  Before I started this semester, I had very limited knowledge about technology integration in English language teaching. I thought that technology was limited to the use of a smart board, PowerPoint presentations, and maybe a few videos. However, thanks to this course, my perspective has completely changed. I realized that technology is not only a tool but also an element that enriches learning, motivates students, and makes teaching more effective. The tasks we completed during the course both informed and made me think about this. For example, while preparing an infographic on “cyberbullying,” I learned about digital safety and experienced how I could use technology for educational purposes. Also, working with Canva and similar digital tools like Google Docs and AI tools helped me understand the impact of visual and written designs in teaching. The reflective writings we did with our peers and ourselves also helped me ...

Hello, everybody!! For this semester, my final assignment is here. In this assignment, I was given two options: one is chatting with a historical figure, author, or recognized character from a story, and the other is chatting with a chatbot using my voice for 3-5 minutes. I chose the first option and used the Magic School Character AI tool to chat and have a conversation with the character Juliet from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. My task was to ask Juliet at least ten meaningful questions. This process was quite fun and offered a different way of learning that was thought-provoking. Next, I was asked to do a report according to the chat I had with the character and get feedback from the same AI's writing feedback tool and revise my report according to the feedback that was given to me along with the comments I've made about the suggested feedback given to me and which changes I've made. This process was quite hard for me because the feedback was not quite helpful for...

Hi there again!  I'm here to share my favorite project that I've made with my group, İren and Halil . We were assigned to do a film review including its plot summary, analysis of some elements of the movie, etc. We chose the movie İncir Reçeli (Fig Jam) directed by Ayraç Ağırlar. My friend recommended this movie to us, and I immediately said yes, because this movie really has a special place in my heart. You can read the review we made by clicking the link below!! Fig Jam Film Review So, how was the process of making this review? I really enjoyed the process of making a review about this movie and it didn't feel like I was making a assignment, actually. 😅 I was familiar with the plot, characters, music, etc. of the movie, so I was able to express what things about the movie can be criticized or praised for the people who are thinking about watching this movie. My experience with Google Docs...? It wasn't my first time using Google Docs as a collaborative writing tool....

 Hello everybody!! 😸😸 Today I am going to share our project making a ''Digital Story'' with my group members, İrem and Halil. There were three options for us to choose and we wanted to do a PSA to bring awareness about depression rates in our country, Türkiye, because I think many people just ignore it or assume that it is a simple illness that everyone may go through.  What difficulties did I run into while making the PSA? Actually, my part was pretty easy compared to other members, I think. I was a narrator and did research to use the information about the rates of depression in Türkiye. However, there wasn't that much information in the near years; that was a shock for me because depression is prevalent among many teenagers and adults. Would I be using this for my students in the future? I think it is a great opportunity for learners to gain understanding about digital literacy about video/text/audio. Editing, combining photos or videos, voice recording, etc., ...

Hello everyone! Today I'd like to tell you about my first experience making a podcast!📟 You can click on the link below to listen our podcast and if you wanna join for our next ep don't hesitate to comment ☝️☕️ SPILL THE TEA EVERYONE My classmate İrem and I made a Vox-Pop style podcast. We asked 10 of our friends about their “most preferred coffee orders on a daily basis”. The answers were quite diverse; it was great to see that everyone has their own taste in coffee! We especially had a lot of fun adding the sound effects and interacting with people. Although the process was fun, editing the sounds and putting everything together was a bit challenging. It took time and patience for everything to be harmonious and fluid, but the end result was definitely worth it. As a pre-service teacher I think  that such practices can be very effective in the language classroom. Instead of just explaining listening and speaking skills, it can be a much more effective learning method for stu...