Corpus for Classrooms: Ideas for Material Design

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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. If teacher are trained on how to design suitable corpus-based tasks, they can help their students get exposed to broader framework of how English used for communication by native speaker.

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