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Secondary to teaching language skills, the exercise of dictation has also been used to introduce students to literary works, and to instill morals. [1] Dictation has also been used in an attempt to capture endangered or dying languages, as in the case of Victoria Howard, a Chinook speaker who dictated songs and stories to Melville Jacobs. [2]
Dictation A technique in which the teacher reads a short passage out loud and students write down what the teacher reads; the teacher reads phrases slowly, giving students time to write what they hear; the technique is used for practice as well as testing. Discourse See “communicative competence”.
The definition of success in a given cloze test varies, depending on the broader goals behind the exercise. Assessment may depend on whether the exercise is objective (i.e. students are given a list of words to use in a cloze) or subjective (i.e. students are to fill in a cloze with words that would make a given sentence grammatically correct).
Dictation (exercise), when one person speaks while another person transcribes; Dictation: A Quartet, a collection of short stories by Cynthia Ozick, published in 2008; Digital dictation, the use of digital electronic media for dictation; Music dictation, an ear training exercise in which the student copies down music while listening to it
Alternatively, this is sometimes used as a short-hand way to say "As Hell," e.g. "That video was cool asl." For this one, context is key. Body count: the number of people someone has slept with.
In linguistics, transcription is the systematic representation of spoken language in written form. The source can either be utterances (speech or sign language) or preexisting text in another writing system.
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Dictation/Reading – the teacher chooses a grade-appropriate passage and reads it aloud; the students take turns reading aloud sections of a passage, play or a dialogue. Student self-correction – should the student make a mistake, the teacher offers student an opportunity for self-correction.