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ELT Journal 1994 48(4):329-336; doi:10.1093/elt/48.4.329
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Using text reconstruction software

Paul Brett

taught EFL in Venezuela and the United Arab Emirates with the British Council. He is currently a Lecturer in EFL at the University of Wolverhampton, having gained an MA in TEFL from the University of Birmingham in 1992. His current research interests include self-access and multimedia applications in EFL.

This article discusses the use and value of text reconstruction programs. It explores criteria for the selection of authentic texts, suggesting that either common patterns of text organization or texts of a specific type may be used. It explains why and how their use may contribute to language learning, and examines the type of linguistic knowledge activated by the task. Building on this rationale for use, it is suggested that text reconstruction may be of most value if exploited as one in a sequence of communicative tasks, using pre-reconstruction tasks to overcome difficulty, raise awareness of schemata, and provide help for the reconstruction, with follow-on tasks providing opportunities for meaningful use and/or language analysis. Examples of such sequences of tasks are provided.


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