Restructuring

Restructuring

1. It involves integrating new information into old.

2. Communicative activities provide a fertile site for restructuring.

3. Restructuring can occur during practice activities.

4. It is experienced by learners as a kind of flash of understanding.

5. Practice activities designed to aid restructuring might have these characteristics:

   • Problematising
     • Negotiation of meaning may also help reorgnise the state of their mental grammar.
   • Push
     • Push learners to out-perform their competence.
   • Scaffolding
     • The practice activity should balance the new with the familiar.