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Flipped Classroom Material Experience

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 Today, I will share my flipped classroom (FC) and my experience in preparing material for it.  As a concept, FC is rather new for English Language Teaching and teaching in general, although I found many regular-life-like things and tools to utilize to enhance my flipped classroom material. Maybe it is because me and my generation are so entangled with the digital environments. I thought that this was like a natural teaching method for me. In the future, I think with a more digital world this idea will gain more importance in teaching circles and me. FC has many advantages like providing the field independence for the students, stress-free task creating, and execution for both teachers and students. Also, the interactive digital environment focusing more on the attributes the students have may enhance the general attitude towards the learning subject. Since digital worlds don't have limitations physical classrooms have. However, this digital world comes at the cost of digital ...

After Years, My Experience With the Creasting a Corpus Based Worksheet

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It's been a long time since I left my blog page, I didn't think that I would return here, to be honest, it was a surprise, a fine surprise I may say. I missed these kinds of assignments which make us interact with the technology, and today I am going to talk about our vocabulary-focused and corpus-based worksheet material design.  We used Canva as a collaborative tool while designing our worksheet, it was very entertaining and challenging to do at the same time since we had not done anything like this since last year. As a corpus we used COCA . Considering the easy interface, it's simpler and more suitable for our target age group who are prep-school students. We are hoping that our students will be able to get a basic vocab for talking about travel with our worksheet.  After seeing examples from our friends in an online class, we kind of struggled since our first draft was so horrible compared to our teacher's explanations and criticisms of our friends' works. Not...