Today we worked on a dictation race about vocal health. The activity consists in organising students into groups and assigning them a text that will be placed at a certain distance from them. The idea was that someone from each group would have to stand up and memorise a section of the text that they would later dictate to the rest of the group. We were supposed to keep on doing this until we'd written the entire text. I believe it is a good activity because it promotes team work and everybody feels like they're an important component of their groups. Besides, it is easily adapted to different levels and topics.
I found this video of a dictation race in a Korean EFL classroom that is more oriented towards beginners. I think the teacher shows them the sentences written down because, since Korean has a different writing system, it is quite challenging for the students, but I think it'd be better for our context (EFL for Spanish speakers) to read the sentences out loud only so that students get to practice listening. Overall, I'm very convinced that the 'game factor' would be super engaging so I'll definitely do this in my final practicum next semester (with the necessary adaptations to the group I'll be teaching of course).
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