Week 7

Corpus for Classrooms: Ideas for Material 

Design Neveen Al Saeed & Salma Waly

✨Advantages

✶Corpora helped students to learn about certain language uses that were not available in any of the traditional tools. 

✶Corpora allowed students to examine these language features in context.

✶Corpora helped students get a broader view of language.

✶Corpora could help improve students’ language proficiency.

✨Disadvantages

✶Disadvantage is that some corpus software is not available for students

✷Students are confused because of the large amounts of search results that when searching any corpus.

✨Corpus-based Activities and Ideas for Material Design 

Elementary students: Collocations: make/do

✶Verb pairing game

✶Computer cloze activity

Intermediate students: Modal verbs

✶Contextual Analysis

✶Cloze activities

✶Multiple-choices

✶Express yourself

Upper intermediate students: Phrasal verbs 

✶Cloze activity

Advanced students: Idiomatic Expressions: 

✶Concordance Analysis

✶Pragmatics: Situation analysis