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Is It A Goodbye? Maybe, Maybe Not

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Hello to my dear fellows, As you can see from the title of my post, this may be my last post. Or not. I don't know. Maybe, it is just a break.  As you all know I write in this blog because it is a requirement of the Material Design course I take this year. I am supposed to tell you about the tools we have learned to create materials and what I have gone through while using them.  When I first heard this from our teacher Dr Gökçe Kurt Tiftik, it seemed like it would be tiring. But it was not like that at all. Writing here, talking with you, introducing all those tools with my own words... All of them was a great way to learn using those tools. I must say it also develops my English quite a lot. You know my first language is Turkish. ALSO, another plus point is that I feel like an up-to-date person who uses technology while keeping this blog. So we use technology while learning how to use technology to create materials. Isn't it amazing? Sometimes graduating and being a teacher s
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A Sea of Information- Corpora

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Hello to you my dear fellows, Now it is time to share my handout with you. If you remember I have spoken of it in my last post and said that I would use a corpus while preparing my handout.  Here is the fruit of my labour: I have prepared this with my partner, Rabia Tuğlu . "Was the process of preparing this hard," you will ask. Yes, it was hard at the beginning. Because it was my first time preparing a handout using corpora.  Then you will ask what corpora is. It is actually "are" because corpora are the plural of the corpus. And a corpus is basically a sea of information that can be used for anything. There are all types of written texts. (Do you know that when preparing a dictionary, people use corpora? I did not know this.)  We, as teachers, use corpora to prepare language awareness tasks. We make students realize a grammar rule or different cases in which a word can be used. For example, if we want our students to learn the rule for using "would", we
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An Unexpected Comeback

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Greetings my readers who are small in number and get my love in much bigger portions, I hope you did not forget who I am or what this blog is about. Well on the other side it is totally normal that you forget about me because I was absent for a long time after I wrote my "farewell post". That is why let me remind you of what I was doing in my old days for you and for the newcomers (I hope there will be :') ). As the title of my blog gives away, my blog was about teaching - and beyond. Together with my readers, we have discovered so many tools that will help me - and us - teaching English in the future. It was sometimes hard to use those tools because in the era I have gone to school, there was nearly no technology to help us in learning. But overall it was a whole new experience for us. It was exciting.  Now, let me explain my sudden comeback. This is my third year in the English Language Teaching Department - sadly I am at home while studying in this department because o
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