In this book, I start by describing why I've needed dictation, the benefits I’ve seen, and how you can avoid a few obstacles I encountered when adopting this skill. In summary, dictation has helped me attain higher word counts, with less harm to my body from sitting around all the time, and more creativity!
Target Listening is a practical, engaging series that helps students improve overall communicative skills through listening tasks presented in natural conversational English. All activities incorporate focused, practical vocabulary words used in everyday situations. The vocabulary words are recycled throughout the series to reinforce learning. Real-life themes are presented through each unit exposing students to situations they encounter everyday outside of the classroom.
Each book in this series contains 40 units divided into eight themes. Each unit is comprised of five exercises based on a single listening text, which may be a dialog, monolog or continuous prose. By focusing learners’ attention on text transcription, Listening Practice through Dictation encourages learners to notice and improve spelling, vocabulary, sentence structure, cohesive devices used in speaking and writing, and punctuation ... Level : Pre-Intermediate
Grammar Dictation by Ruth Wajnryb (Resource Books for Teachers)
Grammar Dictation offers an innovative approach to the study of grammar in the language classroom - the dictogloss procedure, which consists of three stages: listening, text reconstruction, and mistakes analysis.
