f. Dictation can help develop all four language skills in an integrative way.
B. Disadvantages of Using Dictation
a. It can be cumbersome and takes some practice.
b. Fairly accurate, but you still need to aware of errors or incorrect words.
c. You can often organize your thoughts better when writing or typing.
d. Verbal communication is linier, where writing allows you to skip around.
e. Another drawback to dictation is that most people think visually, rather than
completely verbally.
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From the statement above, the writer concluded that dictation technique have advantages and disadvantages. Dictation technique
can develop all four skills - speaking and pronunciation can be developed if the students do the dictating rather than the teacher
5.3 Teaching Procedure of Writing Ability Using Dictation
The procedure can be applied as follows: 1.
Read the text through once at normal speed. The teacher trainer should demonstrate
2. Now read it again in meaningful phrases which may vary slightly from your
colleagues, of course. You should be reading each phrase at normal speed without repeating, but pauising between phrases only long enough for the
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students to write it down. Note that although some teachers do not dictate the punctuation, we feel that it is helpful to do so, and that it avoids a great deal of
confusion. 3.
Now read through again at normal speed so the students can check their paper. Lastly, ask students to correct their work by referring to the text. They may
also exchange papers.
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B. Frame of Thinking
Writing is difficult skill to be learned. Many diffulties are faced by students in arranging their idea in written form. Sometimes they also have to think hard to find
good sentences and quite long for them to create their own sentences to start write composition. In this case the teacher has the main role to provide the technique to
make the students interesting and having motivation in learning English because the students‟ motivation is the main factor that influences the success of teaching and
learning process. One of those techniques is using brainstorming in writing descriptive paragraph.
Brainstorming gave variation on teaching that can make the students easier to explore
their mind in written form. They can learn to think quickly and more creative in the progress. Brainstorming can be used for a variety of writing activities and it can
develop their writing skill. So in this case the brainstorming also can be used for teaching descriptive paragraph writing.
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Ibid.,