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From https://gianfrancoconti.wordpress.com

Gianfranco Conti writes, "Dictations were taboo for many years in mainstream language education. However, with recent research findings indicating that decoding skills (the ability to match print to sound) are crucial to language acquisition, especially in the realms of listening and reading fluency development, they have become ‘fashionable’ again.

"I have always been a passionate advocate of dictation and have been using it for over 30 years as a means to develop decoding and listening skills, but also to foster metalinguistic awareness, vocabulary learning and syntactic knowledge."

In the rest of Dr. Conti's blog post, he describes several variations of dictation tasks that encourage better retrieval later, get students working together to fill in missing information, and increase students' metalinguistic awareness.

Read the full post at https://gianfrancoconti.wordpress.com/2019/01/12/beyond-transcription-unlocking-the-full-power-of-dictation-my-favourite-dictation-tasks/