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How to create a language awareness task?

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Hello again, Today, i will talk about "Data Driven Learning" which is used for consciousness raising based on technology. In data driven learning, "corpus" helps us in discorvering phase. Corpus is a collection of more than one written or spoken texts. These texts are authentic texts. Through corpus, students can search and discover data (it can be a grammatical item or a vocabulary item) by themselves. This is called as inductive learning. It is learning by students' discovery.  In our last classes, we learned creating a language awareness task by integrating corpus and applied our knowledge by creating our own task. How did we achieve that? I and my partner Zeynep (here is the link to go her blog page: https://newgenengeducation.blogspot.com/?m=1 )chose a generally confused grammatical item (Time prepositions) in the high school prep class coursebook. Then, we created activities based on noticing, producing and practing techniques. Don't forget that The m