This paper reports on a study investigating children’s attitudes towards dictogloss, a type of focus on form task designed to facilitate learners’ understanding of the target form in a meaning-focused context. The compatibility of this language teaching procedure with interests and motivation of learners, in effect, provides a learner perspective of the effectiveness and usefulness of the task....

This study aimed to examine the effect of two types of collaborative output tasks on Iranian EFL learners’ comparative adjectives with two or more syllables. Thirty Iranian EFL learners participated in this study which were then divided into two experimental and one control groups; one experimental group received dictogloss task in 4-pairs and the other experimental group was given text reconst...

This paper discusses the effectiveness of using two task-types, dictogloss and opinion-gap tasks, in focus-on-form lessons to elicit language-related episodes (LREs) and produce modified output. The participants were 40 Form 6 students in a Malaysian secondary school in two intact classes. One group was taught using opinion-gap tasks and the other using dictogloss tasks. Results show that almos...

__________________ This article describes dictogloss, an integrated skills technique for language learning in which students work together to create a reconstructed version of a text read to them by their teacher. The article begins for explaining the basic dictogloss technique, contrasting it with traditional dictation, and citing research related to the use of dictogloss in second language in...

The article describes how the dictogloss method and cooperative learning can be combined to promote the development of listening and speaking skills of second language learners. The paper begins with an outline of the dictogloss procedure and the theoretical background behind it. The procedures for conducting a dictogloss-based listening class are then described in great detail. Finally, the po...

L’attività ha un ruolo fondamentale nell’acquisizione di una L2 in quanto fornisce il contesto interazione indispensabile per favorire i processi mediazione e uso. Dopo presentazione del della nei apprendimento uso lingua seconda delle attività strategie illustrate nel Volume complementare QCER, nell’articolo viene proposta breve riflessione su che cosa si intende ‘attività’ o ‘task’ quali sono...

Private speech utilization is accepted to have a critical role in the continuum of language acquisition. As a valuable device in studying learners’ talk during interaction, a language related episode (LRE) is any part of a dialogue where a student speaks about a language problem s/he comes across while completing a task. The present study investigated the role of private speech produced by Inte...