This 4-hour mini-course offers a fresh and practical approach to using dictation as a dynamic, student-centred tool in the EFL classroom. The course explores how dictation has evolved from its traditional roots into an engaging, communicative activity that promotes language learning.
Through a blend of theoretical insights and hands-on practice, you’ll discover the various purposes and types of dictation activities, including running dictation and Dictogloss. The course will guide you in designing and implementing activities that foster active student participation, improve listening and writing skills, and enhance classroom interaction.
You will also learn practical strategies to incorporate innovative dictation activities into your lesson planning and adapt them to both online and face-to-face teaching environments, ensuring a fun and effective learning experience for your students.
What You Will Learn
By the end of this course, you will:
- Understand how dictation can develop multiple language skills, not just spelling.
- Learn to use student-centred dictation activities that encourage peer learning and independence.
- Discover ways to help students identify and improve gaps in their language knowledge using dictation activities.
- Use dictation to manage classroom energy and keep students engaged.
- Adapt dictation tasks for different levels and learning goals.
- Integrate dictation with modern technology and teaching methods.
- Create meaningful, personalised dictation tasks for your students.
- Gain ready-to-use examples to enhance your teaching.
About the Trainer
Sophie Cocault – CELTA/ CELT-P/ CELT-S Trainer & EAL/ ESOL Specialist.
Sophie has over 15 years’ teaching experience and she has been training educators for 10 years. She has taught and lived in different countries and she has been researching multilingualism and how to use learners’ mother tongues in the classroom. She runs a multilingual story club called Tongues and Tales where people come and tell stories in various languages then all discuss in English. In her free time, she collect international children’s books, swim in the cold Irish sea and doodle!