Week 7

Corpus for classroom: Ideas for Material Design  ✌

Neveen Al Saeed & Salma Waly

       In this paper, two researchers aim at highlighting several ways through which corpora can be integrated in language classrooms to teach students of various levels.

Corpus-based Activities and Ideas for Material Design.

💁 Elementary student: Collocations: make/do

👉 Verb pairing game

👉 Computer cloze activity

👉 Screen shot analysis

💁 Intermediate students: Modal verbs

👉 Contextual Analysis

👉 Cloze activities

👉 Spot the error activity 

👉 Multiple-choices

👉 Express yourself

💁 Upper intermediate students: Phrasal verbs

👉 Cloze activity

💁 Advanced students: Idiomatic Expression:

👉 Concordance Analysis

👉 Pragmatics: Situation analysis 

     Although using corpora in language teaching is challenging, it has a big potential in EFL classroom.