The so-called ‘dicto-comp’ is a simple technique for guided compositions. This technique provides an activity intermediate between completely controlled writing exercises and completely free compositions.
The technique itself is quite simple and requires a short text or story. Although we have chosen a story for our exercise, the news articles from the newspaper often serve as a good source for this type of exercise.
Warn the students ahead of time that you will continue reading until you get to the end of the story. Then, read the text aloud once or twice at normal speed. This is, of course, much too fast for them to write down the whole story word-for-word.
Put some of the key vocabulary items and phrases from the story on the blackboard, and ask the students to write the text down from ‘memory’. Naturally, they will not be able to remember the story word-for-word, and thus they will have write much of it down in their own words.
For a weaker group, put the vocabulary and phrases on the board before reading the story. It is important that the story not be too difficult, nor too long. Our story, for instance, is for advanced students. For beginning students, the whole text might only be five or six lines long.
The so-called ‘dicto-comp’ is a simple technique for guided compositions. This technique provides an activity intermediate between completely controlled writing exercises and completely free compositions.
The technique itself is quite simple and requires a short text or story. Although we have chosen a story for our exercise, the news articles from the newspaper often serve as a good source for this type of exercise.
Warn the students ahead of time that you will continue reading until you get to the end of the story. Then, read the text aloud once or twice at normal speed. This is, of course, much too fast for them to write down the whole story word-for-word.
Put some of the key vocabulary items and phrases from the story on the blackboard, and ask the students to write the text down from ‘memory’. Naturally, they will not be able to remember the story word-for-word, and thus they will have write much of it down in their own words.
For a weaker group, put the vocabulary and phrases on the board before reading the story. It is important that the story not be too difficult, nor too long. Our story, for instance, is for advanced students. For beginning students, the whole text might only be five or six lines long.
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