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AR (Augmented Reality) and VR (Virtual Reality) are immersive technologies that enhance language learning by creating engaging, interactive experiences. AR presents digital demonstrations onto the real world, such as 3D objects or animations, while VR places learners in fully virtual environments. In language classes, AR can make vocabulary and grammar lessons more engaging  by integrating visual and interactive activities, while VR allows learners to practice real life conversations in virtual environments, such as cafes or marketplaces. These technologies increase motivation, retention, and language skills. However, they also have challenges, including high costs for tools like VR headsets and the AR. Also, teachers may require specialized training to integrate these tools into their classroom practice, and some students might feel overwhelmed by the immersive nature of VR. Despite these constraints, AR and VR have great potential to prevail traditional language classrooms when i...

The flipped classroom approach reverses traditional teaching by having students study instructional materials, like videos or readings, at home before class, freeing up class time for interactive activities. In language classes, this allows students to focus on communicative skills, such as speaking and listening, while teachers provide individualized support and feedback. Flipped classroom technique promotes learning and independent study, but it relies on students’ discipline and access to technology, which can be deceiving. While ideal for real-world language use, it requires significant preparation from teachers and might be less effective for beginners without fundamental knowledge. When it comes to our assignment, my peers were Başak and Pınar, from the same class of mine. For our flipped classroom assignment, from the material our instructor Mustafa Polat assigned us with, we chose the unit My Town. We have used 10 places from it for vocabulary items to use in our flipped classr...

Greetings my fellow readers. Today, I will be mentioning a groupwork I have done along with Yavuz Selim Özdemir and Güneş Kesen for our lesson, Current Issues in Teaching. For the topic of this blog, our instructor has assigned us a task, in which we were supposed to prepare a lesson plan and a set of activities that includes the use of a corpus based on the ASSURE model, which we learned in the prior lessons. For this task, we were also assigned to use a unit from the prep. school English Student Book. We have chosen the Unit 18, Digital Era for our lesson plan and activity design. We have decided to base our material upon the use of connectors, allowing students to explore these connectors through corpus and the activites we have prepared. These activities that we have prepared include self-preparing of a few sentences through corpus, which improves learner autonomy, use of connectors in different parts of sentences, which provides the contemplation of context and placement of connec...