Assure, AI, Corpus and Tears
Hello again, everyone! It's Reyyan. I am officially back in action with the first task of the semester. I hope you all missed me. Just when we thought our midterms were over, we found ourselves diving right into another task. For this one, we worked on the ASSURE model and prepared an AI-enhanced, corpus-based lesson plan. Considering the assignment landed right on top of our midterm week, I can say I'm pretty satisfied with the outcome. Of course, it was challenging, as all group projects are. But I believe we managed the process well to complete the assignment to the best of our ability. I'll talk a bit about our materials. First, we have a four-stage worksheet. There's an initial section where students can test their existing knowledge. This is followed by a section for corpus scanning, AI-provided sentence examples, and vocabulary work. In the final part, students are divided into groupso of three, and each student creates their own 'super character.' A...