Preparing AI-enhanced, Corpus-based Teaching Materials and a Lesson Plan

 

Hello, welcome back everyone. Today I am going to talk about my new assignment. I was assigned to a group of three: myself, Adem Bozkurt, and Ekrem Başkara. Our topic is preparing AI-enhanced, corpus-based teaching materials and a lesson plan based on the ASSURE model. Now, let me briefly explain the process to you.

As pre-teachers, we are constantly looking for innovative ways to make grammar memorable and relevant. I recently designed a lesson plan and corresponding materials focused on teaching obligation modal verbs (must, have to, mustn't, don't have to) to high school English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students at the B1 level. The lesson follows the ASSURE model and is heavily integrated with technology, specifically AI tools and corpus analysis.

The core task, AI-Enhanced Corpus-Based Teaching Material: Obligations at School, is a 45-minute activity for learners aged 14-15. It moves students from a "Test Your Knowledge" warm-up to an "Inductive discovery" process using the corpus analysis tool SKELL (Skell/GenAI tools).

The students' main work, done in pairs, involves:

-Hands-on Corpus Search & Analysis (pair-work): Using SKELL to search for the common usage patterns of "must" and "have to", and later "mustn't" and "don't have to". They analyze the example sentences to discover the rules inductively.

-Task B: AI-Enhanced Role Play (pair-work): Students use an AI chatbot (like Gemini) to generate a short dialogue about school rules using the target grammar. They then practice editing and improving the AI's output.

Reflection on the Design Process

The design process was driven by the Constructivist Approach and Student-centered learning. By utilizing the SKELL corpus tool, the material shifts the focus from the teacher lecturing rules to students actively discovering grammar distinctions (e.g., internal vs. external obligation) based on real-world language examples. The inclusion of the AI-Enhanced Role Play provides a high-value, creative output task, teaching students to use AI responsibly for ideation and editing. The aim was to create a highly engaging, technology-rich, and practical lesson.

Implementing this material in a real classroom might face a few issues:

 The most significant potential problem is ensuring that every pair has stable Wi-Fi access and a fully functional mobile device to use the corpus and AI tools. Technical issues

The multiple steps—corpus search, inductive table completion, and AI role-play—are ambitious for a 45-minute lesson. The lesson might require careful pacing, and some activities might need to be shifted to homework.

 While targeted at B1, some learners may struggle with the complex, nuanced task of analyzing corpus sentences to inductively derive the rules. Differentiating instruction or providing more scaffolding for the inductive task might be necessary.

Click here to see the material and the lesson plan


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