Teachers’ Books Criteria Practical Considerations Criteria
31 Feez and Joyce 2002 explain that in a stage of independent construction
of the text, students work independently with the text. Learner performances are used for achievement assessment. The examples of activities for listening tasks
are comprehension activities in response to live or recorded material such as performing a task, sequencing pictures, numbering, ticking or underlining material
on a worksheet and answering questions. The example of speaking task activity is spoken presentation to class, while the example of listening and speaking
activities are role plays and simulated or authentic dialogues. Reading task activities include performing a task, sequencing pictures, numbering, ticking or
underlining material on a worksheet, and answering questions. Meanwhile in writing, it is expected that the students draft and present whole texts in writing
tasks. The last stage is named linking to related texts. According to Feez and
Joyce 2002, in this stage students investigate the comparison of what they have learned in the cycle with the other texts or teaching learning cycle. The activities
in this stage are comparing the use of different text type, researching other text- type, role playing what happens if the same text type is used by people with
different roles and relationships, comparing spoken and written models of the same text-type, and researching how a key language feature used in this text-type
is used in other text types. In relation to the teaching learning cycle, Derewianka 2003 gives a
positive comment of it. She says that the curriculum cycle provides opportunities for both teacher and learners
to take responsibility at different phases in the teachinglearning process.
32 In the early phases, the teacher takes a more direct role in developing the
necessary knowledge and skills, with the learners in an ’apprentice’ role. As the learners develop greater control of the genre, the teacher gradually
withdraws support and encourages learner independence Derewianka, 2003:146.
The implementation of curriculum cycle is useful since it not only provides the students with sufficient guidance from the teacher but also evokes the student’s
independent learning.