The document outlines two dictation exercises aimed at improving language skills: Dictogloss and Mutual Dictation. In Dictogloss, students listen to a sentence, jot down key words, and work together to reconstruct it. Mutual Dictation involves pairs of students sharing parts of a text to create a complete story, promoting collaboration and accuracy in writing.
The document outlines two dictation exercises aimed at improving language skills: Dictogloss and Mutual Dictation. In Dictogloss, students listen to a sentence, jot down key words, and work together to reconstruct it. Mutual Dictation involves pairs of students sharing parts of a text to create a complete story, promoting collaboration and accuracy in writing.
The document outlines two dictation exercises aimed at improving language skills: Dictogloss and Mutual Dictation. In Dictogloss, students listen to a sentence, jot down key words, and work together to reconstruct it. Mutual Dictation involves pairs of students sharing parts of a text to create a complete story, promoting collaboration and accuracy in writing.
The document outlines two dictation exercises aimed at improving language skills: Dictogloss and Mutual Dictation. In Dictogloss, students listen to a sentence, jot down key words, and work together to reconstruct it. Mutual Dictation involves pairs of students sharing parts of a text to create a complete story, promoting collaboration and accuracy in writing.
978-0-521-34819-5 — Dictation Paul Davis , Mario Rinvolucri More Information
Text reconstruction
7.6 Dictogloss Choose a fairly long sentence that is not too difficult relative to the language level of the group. Here is one for a fairly advanced level: We will no longer accept your doctor's statement as proof of unfitness for work, as we feel that if you are able to go to the doctor's you are able to come to work.
Tell your students that you will read them the sentence once and once only, after which they are to jot down the main key words they can recall and set about trying to reconstruct the sentence in writing as accurately as they can. Read them the sentence. The first time you do this exercise you may have to relent and allow them a second reading, as people rarely pay attP.ntion until they discover that they need to pay attention first time round. As they work at their rebuilding of the sentence, suggest that they get together in pairs and then fours. Finally ask a 'secretary' to come out to the board to write up a final version. The secretary does not bring her script, but depends on suggestions from the group. Students compare their corporate board version with your original.
Acknowledgement This classic exercise was written up in The English Language Teaching Journal in 1963. In the late seventies it became popular in Australia. It is more fully described than here in Once Upon a Time, by John Morgan and Mario Rinvolucri. See also the article by Terry Tomscha in Practical English Teaching
7.7 Mutual dictation ~
This exercise involves students in combining two-part texts intc one continuous piece. Prepare copies of gapped text A and gapped text B opposite. Sit the students facing each other in pairs. (In a traditional classroom have the front row rum round and face the second row, etc.) Give person A in each pair a version A sheet and person B a version B sheet. Tell the students each has half the text. They should try not to look at each other's sheets. A dictates and B writes, then B dictates and A writes, and so on until the story is complete. Finally have the students show each other their sheets to check for accuracy.
