TeflTecher : Tasks, Videos and Opinions for Tefl Teachers. EFL 2.0 – Teacher Talk. Life Feast. Teacher Reboot Camp. Writing to learn. This post was inspired by Dave Dodgson in Ankara, Turkey, and his account of using dictogloss with young learners.
I’m a big fan of dictogloss* (or dictocomp as Marisa Constantides calls it in a comment on the same blog post) and this is one of my favourite dictogloss activities. *For a definition of dictogloss please scroll down to the bottom of the post) [Writer's block - image by flickrFelix - a creative commons image] I first used this activity with a group of Spanish students in Madrid. They all worked for the Spanish Heart Foundation and were attending a one week intensive refresher course. How do you eat an elephant? Creating context in trainingthe Internal Trainer.