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| Title | How to Make Dictation Fun, Part 1 |
| Body | FLTEACH listserv users have recently shared ideas for making dictation exercises more meaningful, communicative, and fun. Here are some of their suggestions: --- This one is kind of easy: dictate weird sentences/stories with surprising combinations that (1) include your students without embarrassing them (2) embrace their love of the bizarre and extreme (3) mock ridiculous figures in pop culture (4) tell interesting secrets about yourself. Goofy translations of famous catch phrases and song lyrics can get them paying attention too. Despres-Berry, B. Re: [FLTEACH] How to Make Dictation Fun??. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv (FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, 2 Oct 2009). --- This is an activity that in German is called a Laufdiktat. It works like this: Students are in teams of 6. They push their desks together to sit as a group. Each has an assigned space at the board. Hand out one paper with the same six sentences to each team. I prepare these ahead of time, two sets to a page, print them out and cut them in half. The sentences need to be numbered. Student 1 from each team goes to the board and has to write sentence 1 from memory. If she forgets part of the sentence, she dashes back to her team - where the paper is - and looks at the sentence again. She can go back & forth as many times as needed to look at the sentence on the team's paper and then dash back to write it correctly on the board. The team members cannot call out and say, "You spelled 'Jahre' wrong" or anything like that. They just wait for Student 1 to finish her sentence, then Student 2 goes up and does sentence 2, etc. As soon as one team finishes all six sentences, the relay stops. Then check the sentences for spelling. One student from each team goes to the board, takes a marker and circles all words in each sentence that are spelled correctly. The teacher reads the sentence first out loud, then calls on a student to point out each word that is correct. If the student falters, the teacher can ask questions like, "Is there really a 't' on the end of that word?", etc. to make sure the correct spelling is given. After each sentence is completed, the person at the board counts the number of correct words in that sentence and writes that number to the left of the sentence and circles it. After all six sentences have been corrected, the person at the board adds up all the correct numbers and puts the total correct number of words at the top above the team's sentences. If the team which was done first also has the most words correct, they are the winner. If not, then whichever team has the most words correct is the winner for that round and you can start over again with a new round and a new set of six sentences. You can follow it up a few days later as a dictation (using the same six sentences) or as a cloze activity with only certain words left out which students fill in as you read the sentences out loud. C. Haring. [FLTEACH] A Laufdiktat / How to Make Dictation Fun?? Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv (FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, 2 Oct 2009). --- Looking for more ideas? Check next week’s InterCom for more ideas in How to Make Dictation Fun, Part 2. |
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