Hey there! This is Hüseyin Can, a ELT student from Marmara University, who has just completed a project where he had to come up with a 40 minute lesson plan for 9th graders. The subject matter? The difficult distinction between must and have to. Instead of simply telling them the rules, I applied one method called Data-Driven Learning. It is sort of a fancy way of making students act as detectives with the help of language data.
The main material I used was a basic digital worksheet that prepares the students for four stages. First, they do a very short warm-up to think about "strong" versus "general" . The next step is the fun one: they get to use an online Corpus tool called SKELL to look for sentences containing "must" and "have to." They take the real-life examples and use them to guess the grammar rules by basically teaching themselves! For a modern twist, I incorporated a step where they take their self-made rules and check them with an AI tools like ChatGPT and Gemini. The AI does not give the ultimate answer; it just helps them compare their idea with what is widely accepted, thus pushing them to think critically about the data they found. The last part is quite simple writing practice: five school rules with must/mustn't and five personal obligations with have to/don't have to. This design really appealed to me since it is interactive and encourages students to find out the language which is far better than just memorizing a textbook. On the other hand, putting this into practice in a 9th-grade class might turn out to be a nightmare. First of all, tech issues. Should the Wi-Fi be slow or some of the computers not working, the whole lesson will no longer be valid as it all depends on the online tools. Secondly, digital skills. The students are brilliant at using their phones, but they need to be instructed how to search through a Corpus correctly.
I find my Data-Driven lesson my friends Ozan Kazancı, Emir Erdinç and Eylül Emeksiz to be engaging because it allows the students to come up with the grammar rules on their own with the help of real language from a Corpus. It is a fantastic concept for a fun, self-directed learning, but its successful application still relies on a tech that has to be constantly available with a high level of moral support given to the students concerning the use of AI.
I find my Data-Driven lesson my friends Ozan Kazancı, Emir Erdinç and Eylül Emeksiz to be engaging because it allows the students to come up with the grammar rules on their own with the help of real language from a Corpus. It is a fantastic concept for a fun, self-directed learning, but its successful application still relies on a tech that has to be constantly available with a high level of moral support given to the students concerning the use of AI.
Have you used such technologies like Corpus or AI for any task before, and which one would you prefer? Let me know down below!
Here are the materials about the task and our assignment revision based on our friends' rubric
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