We knew the advantage of dictation by looking at the explanation before. Indirectly these advantages are influenced the student skill in listening. In the similar way, dictation is the good technique for English learner to improve their listening skill. As we know that listening is still become the major trouble of thousands English learner, especially ESL/EFL student. They have been through the complicated process to get their goal in listening process; it is understanding, decoding, and response the spoken language.
John Flowderdew load dictation as the language focus to decide the success of student in listening mastery[1]. This fact creates the relevance between dictation and listening. Because the major activity of dictation is listening to the speaker and than response into the written, later on student may check it by themselves. Well directly, they could measure their listening skill by this activity anyways.
In other way, the relevance between dictations encloses the collaboration between teacher and student. Jeremy Harmer said that little dictations can get the process moving[2] especially for warming up. Many teachers complain that sometime they confuse how to start the class; most of them have no ides to begin the class. But with little dictation like asking “what is your hobby?” then answers glowingly “my hobby is…”it will create an enjoyable class condition.
In essential, listening is part of dictation and conversely, because it is impossible to separate both of them in language teaching. Dictation in language teaching doesn’t mean that everything should depend on the teacher as though teacher was the only prime mover of the class. However the view of dictation is changed today, dictation is not the old boring technique anymore but now it is become a treatment to make the class more interactive. In the same way, dictation is the effective technique to teach listening.
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