English Language Teaching in its Social Context

206 ANNE BURNSSu: Oh (laughs) . . . (looks at job advertisement) . . . In the CES . . . C . . . (writes)Ka: (watches as Susanna writes) C . . . E . . . S . . .. This extract illustrates how the learners:referred to the modeltransferred language from the model to the situational context of their owntextoffered suggestions for constructing thc textcollaborated to produce what they believed to be correct versions of the textmonitored what was being writtenused the model to check their version of thc textread aloud to 'try out' the text on each otherused each other as resources for writingexchanged cross-cultural information about the social context of the genre.The final version of the letter by this group of learners is reproduced below and isrepresentative of similar texts completed by other groups in the class during this activity.Text 4: Jointly negotiated letter of application