TPRS

I’m starting to get into a rhythm. I definitely need writing exercises and reading exercises for my students. They need these in order to review the vocabulary and structures they’ve learned in the stories we do in class, and also to re-inforce (to re-expose them to) those vocab and structures. I don’t have time at [...]

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Dictation redux

Image via Wikipedia A while back, I posted about using dictation in EFL classes. I recently gave dictations in my final exams, and reading the results taught me some further uses for dictation. Students failed to notice how a falling intonation indicated the end of a sentence. I did not announce the punctuation, as I [...]

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What does dictation evaluate?

I have a question about dictation. I’ve been looking at various rubrics that Susie Gross and Jason Fritze  have created to evaluate students, and I wanted to come up with my own that I could show to my department colleagues. I want to win them over to the idea of making fluency the main objective [...]

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