
About the Session
Dictation: Engaging and Enjoyable Activities for a Holistic Approach
Description: This professional development session is designed to empower language teachers with creative and engaging strategies for teaching dictation in a holistic manner, ensuring student participation and enjoyment.
Key Focus Areas:
Approaches to Dictation:
Delve into the concept of a holistic approach to dictation, which integrates listening, writing, spelling, vocabulary, and grammar skills within authentic language contexts.
Designing Engaging Dictation Activities:
Develop strategies for designing creative and interactive dictation activities that cater to diverse learning needs.
Implementing Dictation:
Learn effective teaching techniques for delivering dictation activities in a dynamic and engaging manner, including clear modelling, guided practice, and meaningful feedback.
Explore strategies for creating a supportive and inclusive learning environment that encourages risk-taking.
Exploring Engaging Activities and Games:
Discover a variety of engaging dictation activities and games, such as dictation races, dictation relays, dictation bingo, Dictogloss, gapped dictation and many more, designed to promote active participation and enjoyment.
Explore how these activities can be adapted and customised to target specific language skills, learning objectives, and proficiency levels.
Duration: The session is structured for one hour, allowing ample time for interactive discussions, hands-on activities, and collaborative exploration of resources.
Additional Benefits: Participants will receive access to resources, including sample activity templates to support the implementation of dictation teaching in their language classrooms. Â Additionally, a downloadable PDF copy of the presentation will be provided for continued professional development and reference.
The session can be customised to align with your specific needs, which will be thoroughly addressed during the booking process.
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