A dictogloss is a dictation exercise where students work together to recreate a text from memory after listening to it read aloud by the teacher without taking notes. The process involves students individually writing down what they remember, then pairing up to combine their versions, and finally the teacher reading the text again while students correct their work. Advantages include developing cooperation, testing comprehension, engaging memory and creativity, and allowing students to enrich their language through peer interaction and feedback. Disadvantages are that dictating unpunctuated text and asking students to punctuate it can be difficult, dictation is an outdated teaching method, and lessons focus more on accuracy than communication.
A dictogloss is a dictation exercise where students work together to recreate a text from memory after listening to it read aloud by the teacher without taking notes. The process involves students individually writing down what they remember, then pairing up to combine their versions, and finally the teacher reading the text again while students correct their work. Advantages include developing cooperation, testing comprehension, engaging memory and creativity, and allowing students to enrich their language through peer interaction and feedback. Disadvantages are that dictating unpunctuated text and asking students to punctuate it can be difficult, dictation is an outdated teaching method, and lessons focus more on accuracy than communication.
A dictogloss is a dictation exercise where students work together to recreate a text from memory after listening to it read aloud by the teacher without taking notes. The process involves students individually writing down what they remember, then pairing up to combine their versions, and finally the teacher reading the text again while students correct their work. Advantages include developing cooperation, testing comprehension, engaging memory and creativity, and allowing students to enrich their language through peer interaction and feedback. Disadvantages are that dictating unpunctuated text and asking students to punctuate it can be difficult, dictation is an outdated teaching method, and lessons focus more on accuracy than communication.
A dictogloss is a dictation exercise where students work together to recreate a text from memory after listening to it read aloud by the teacher without taking notes. The process involves students individually writing down what they remember, then pairing up to combine their versions, and finally the teacher reading the text again while students correct their work. Advantages include developing cooperation, testing comprehension, engaging memory and creativity, and allowing students to enrich their language through peer interaction and feedback. Disadvantages are that dictating unpunctuated text and asking students to punctuate it can be difficult, dictation is an outdated teaching method, and lessons focus more on accuracy than communication.
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What is a dictogloss?
Dictoglosses are essentially dictation exercises where students work together to recreate a text. The process is normally as such: The teacher reads a text. Students listen. They do not take notes. They just listen. The students INDIVIDUALLY write down as much of the story as they can remember. They can use pictures, abbreviations, other words, blanks or anything else that will help them if they don't recall the specifics. (optional) The text is read again. Students do NOT write while the teacher is speaking. When the teacher finishes, they make changes as needed to their version. (I prefer to skip this step and go straight to 4, but some teachers find their classes don't have much to share unless this step is used. You know your classroom best so do what you think will work!) The students pair up with a friend and together try to combine their versions to get the version as close to the original as possible. Students put down their pens and the teacher reads the text one last time. The students get a few more moments to write their final version (if you as a teacher want you can combine pairs at this point to make a group of 4 working together on the final version). If you want you can have the students write the final version on butcher paper and everyone posts it on the board. Then give students time to circulate and mark any mistakes they see (misspelled words, bad punctuation etc.) I find the faster way is to have them pass the paper to the right/left and then the teacher reads the reading again and they correct the paper. ADVANTAGES Students should interact with each other in small groups with the purpose to reconstruct the text, what gives them the possibility to find out what they still dont know and in this way they improve their language skills. Cooperation is developed as an important human value. Dictogloss offers the possibility to test while teaching. In the error analysis and correction step learners consolidate their understandin of which options are the most suitable. Another important aspect is the role of memory and creativity, something that should be understood and exploited. When the students begin to reconstruct the text, a gap exists between the information the learners remember plus what they have written down during the dictation and the reconstruction of the semantic unit of language, both grammatically and textually correct. This gap challenges the learners to put in practice what they know to reconstruct the text or to produce what is called as a gloss ( a paraphrase of the original text ), something that becomes and original work. The studentes work in small groups, what gives all the members the possibility to enrich the new text. The analysis of each version is carried out on the groups versions and not on individual ones. It is based on group work what allows the participation of all members since they help each other in completing the new version. The students enrich their language due to the ideas expressed by the rest of the class. Its main objective is to discover the areas of needs the learners have. The use of text as the semantic unit of language instead of the word or the sentence. DISADVANTAGES 1) Dictating a text without punctuation and then asking the students to work in groups to punctuate the text appropriately is not easy. 2) Dictation is old-fashioned, a relic of the grammar-translation method. 3) It is dull, uncommunicative and often difficult lessons, where the focus was fairly and squarely on accuracy of language.
