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Phase 2: Modeling and Deconstructing the Text

In this stage, students:



  Investigate the structural pattern and language features of the 

model



  Compare the model with other examples of the same text type

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Feez and Joyce (1998) comment that “modeling and deconstruction 

are undertaken at both the whole text, clause, and expression levels. It is at this 

stage  that  many  traditional  ESL  language  teaching  activities  come  into  their 

own.”

Phase 3: Joint Construction of the Text

In this stage:



  Students begin to contribute to the construction of whole 

examples of the text type.



  The teacher gradually reduces the contribution to text 

construction, as the students move closer to being able to control 

text type independently.

Joint-construction activities include:



  Teacher questioning, discussing and editing whole class 

construction, then scribing onto board or overhead transparency



  Skeleton texts



  Jigsaw and information-gap activities



  Small-group construction of tests



  Dictogloss



  Self-assessment and peer-assessment activities