Teaching Strategies
Shared Dictation
Shared dictation helps students to practise speaking clearly. Teachers can
use this strategy to revise recently learned vocabulary, structures and
genre, or to focus student attention on something important such as
an overview of the lesson. The language of the dictated text needs to
be familiar to the students. Each student has half
of the text. The students sit back to back, or facing each other
with their papers out of each other's sight. They read out their phrases
in turn, starting with 'A who reads out the first group of words
to 'B'.'B' then writes down what s/he has heard. Then 'B' says the next
phrase to 'A' and so on. Students can spell out words only after they
have tried to get the message across three times.
Sample Texts
Mutual Dictation: Antonio's Character
