THE ROLE OF DICTATIONS IN THE DETECTION OF STUDENT´S ERRORS.

Authors

  • Roberto A. Valdeón García

Keywords:

Errors, Dictation, Foreign language, Needs analysis.

Abstract

In this article we concentrate on the use of dictations in the classroom as a means of detecting and classifiing students ' errors. This will enable feachers of English to concentrate on those aspects of the language which their students have greater difficult to assimilare. Dictations obviously show the learners' phonetic defficiencies, but they can also be a good method fo list syntactic or semantic mistakes. The article includes a detailed analysis of four different texts, two of them used with third year philology students and two of then with fourth year students.

Author Biography

Roberto A. Valdeón García

Dpto. de Filología Anglogermánica y Francesa
Universidad de Oviedo

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