Every language teacher knows the bittersweet feeling of a student who can do a reasonable job of reading and comprehending a target-language text, but falls apart the moment they have to write a paragraph from scratch. Traditional methods treat writing preparation as an exercise in memorizing isolated vocabulary lists or conjugating abstract grammar charts. Pure Comprehensible Input (CI) approaches rely on language washing over the student until it intuitively sticks.
But when a student sits down to write independently, intuition alone rarely prevents them from writing with native-language word order. They need a structural blueprint.
To build better writers, we need to treat language production not as a memory test, but as a structural puzzle. By turning a carefully constructed model text into a series of gamified, interactive text-reconstruction tasks, we can train a student's brain to naturally map syntax and morphology.
