Outline: It helps us to organize our ideas in a better way.
How to teach text structures?
Using graphic organizers, teach each structure one at a time.
Have students map structures.
Add more structures one at a time.
Teach signal words.
Build awareness of superordinate and subordinate structures.
Use common terms as a whole staff.
Communicative competence really means mastering the ability to use and understand different types of texts.
- Description
- Sequence
- Comparison
- Cause and effect
- Problem/Solution
- Argument
TBI focuses largely on developing the skills to execute language in specific ways using specific text types according to the students' learning situation.