Fun with Quantifiers: Using AI and Corpus in the Classroom
Designing this
AI-enhanced corpus-based teaching material was a highly informative experience
for me as a pre-service English teacher. In this assignment, my friends and I
created many different activities that help high school learners understand and
practice quantifiers through discovery, analysis, and production. The material
includes tasks that test students’ knowledge, a corpus-based activity and an
AI-supported classification exercise, an inductive discovery section, and a
final output stage where students produce their own sentences. After completing the teaching material, we also prepared a detailed lesson plan following the ASSURE model, which you can find linked at the end of this post.
In the first stage, students complete the tasks to check their background knowledge where they decide whether objects in pictures are countable or uncountable and choose the correct quantifier in the given sentences. In the second stage, they work with a corpus-based activity. They search each quantifier on CorpusMate, select one example sentence for each, compare the results and write rules about how these quantifiers function with countable and uncountable nouns. In the AI-enhanced stage, students use ChatGPT to generate incorrect examples of quantifiers, rewrite the ten sentences they receive and correct them. In the inductive discovery stage, learners underline or circle quantifiers in ten example sentences and identify whether the noun is countable or uncountable and whether the meaning is positive or negative. Finally, in the output stage, students complete fill-in-the-blank sentences using the ten quantifiers and write short descriptions of picture scenarios by producing their own sentences.
Designing the material was challenging because we had to balance creativity and clarity. We wanted tasks to be visually engaging and meaningful. Also, we were unsure if they were fully suitable for high school students’ level.
In a real
classroom, longer tasks like the inductive table can create time-management
challenges. But generally, the material is good because it offers a variety of
activities and includes both corpus and AI tasks.
Overall, this assignment
helped me understand how AI and corpus tools can meaningfully support language
teaching when used with clear pedagogical goals.
Thank you for taking the time to read! I hope you found some useful tips:)
My group friends are: Meryem Hilal Yıldırım and Merve Arslan
Second Draft: Improving Our Material and Lesson Plan with Feedback
Revised material link 👇
Revised lesson plan link 👇
https://1drv.ms/w/c/b8775d6a3639955c/IQD-vWAC-n8MQ4Q1l98-VXFNAQdxmpbf0mLMJmc8PfOJsW4?e=JfVjB1