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  We created a teaching material that utilized AI's writing assistance to explore festivals across the globe. For us, this was both a fun and beneficial experience. Unit 6 of the MEB coursebook's intercultural topics  provide the basis for the content, which is intended for EFL high school prep students.    We included AI (ChatGPT) technology into the writing process to make the course more interesting. Students will write well-structured paragraphs about the festivals they selected and the related weather conditions. Additionally, they will review and enhance their work with ChatGPT's guided feedback before presenting their paragraphs to the class.   Students reinforced their learning in the last step by reflecting on the entire process. Our ASSURE-based lesson plan successfully matched objectives with the needs of the students. This experiment showed how AI supports writing activities to improve the learning process. Click for the material Click for Assu...

 What are AR (Augmented Reality) and VR (Virtual Reality)?    Technology in education is undeniably important, with AR and VR being standout tools. VR produces immersive virtual worlds, whereas AR combines digital and real-world aspects. Their primary advantage for language learning is that they provide imaginary or real-world settings; however, expensive equipment and possible technological problems are major disadvantages.   Our Task     We created VR-integrated teaching material that tackle the global issue of marine pollution. The material designed for high school preparatory class students has 5 steps. In step 1, a 360-degree video is used to introduce marine pollution and give students a unique experience. In step 2, another 360-degree video is used to discuss the causes of marine pollution. Step 3 provides a video that discusses negative effects, and Step 4 contains a video that explains strategies to prevent it. Each step is fo...

  Hello everyone! Today I will introduce a brand new teaching approach: Flipped Classroom Approach. Let's explore!    What is the Flipped Classroom Approach?   The flipped classroom approach is a contemporary teaching method in which students study theoretical resources on their own time while concentrating on interactive and practical exercises in class. By enabling students to interact with the material at their own pace, this approach encourages active learning. It has several noteworthy benefits, including encouraging student-centered learning, strengthening collaboration, and boosting communication through engaging classroom exercises. However, it also has drawbacks, such as the requirement for strong self-control and consistent access to technology, which not all students may have.   Our Task and Process    In order to put this strategy into practice, Başak, Ozan, and I worked together on a project that taught language related to local ...

    Greetings to everyone! I always said that I would come across you with different content. Now I am here again with something else. We had an assignment to prepare a corpus-based teaching material and lesson plan for EFL high school students. With a student-centered approach that incorporates technology into the classroom, we created a course that attempts to help students with their grammar and vocabulary. Actually, we aimed for them to notice the difference between the use of 'many' and 'much', but while doing this, we integrated grammar and vocabulary knowledge because they also needed to know the words they are used together.    How did the process work?     We chose to teach the use of 'many' and 'much' quantifiers from the "Party" unit in the coursebook by MEB for preparatory students. By examining language corpora, we made it possible for students to identify linguistic patterns. For this reason, we introduced the COCA (...

     Hello everyone after a nice summer holiday! I am currently in the 3rd grade in the Marmara Elt department and I am progressing with all my strength. I will continue blogging here for another course this year. We remain our adventure with fresh content where we left off, and we must keep up our blog as the online portfolio for the course.   The name of the course that brought us together here again is Current Issues in Teaching. In this course, pre-service English teacher candidates learn the role and integration of technology in the classroom and developing technology-enriched lesson plans and resources. This course encourages moving away from the traditional, monotonous classroom environment by prioritizing technology and artificial intelligence in education. Blogs are actually a part of this content because we use technology while maintaining this portfolio. We create interaction by sharing our content with our audience online. By...

   Greetings to everyone. This is not a farewell post, it is a reflection post. I will talk about what this course has contributed to me throughout the semester. Before this course, I thought the place of technology in English teaching was limited to slides and games. However, with the content of the course and the tasks given to us, I realized that this was never the case. For example, it would be a much more attractive and effective teaching technique if a grammar topic was presented using infographics instead of limiting it to a simple slide. Also, I had assumed that the communication skills course would only involve speaking exercises, but I was wrong. Speaking can take many forms, including podcasts and digital stories.     Each task in this course required technological and (in a few assignments) collaborative skills and could be integrated into a specific English lesson. The artificial intelligence and infographic assignments were a clear example of this, I ...