Dictation Activities in Teaching English at State Islamic Junior High School Surabaya

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Sari, Indah Yuli Kartika (2021) Dictation Activities in Teaching English at State Islamic Junior High School Surabaya. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

Dictation is where the students receive some spoken input, hold this in their memory for a short time, and then write down what they heard. This activity is familiar in English teaching learning processes. The objective of this study are to investigate types of dictation activities in teaching English and analyze teachers’ reason in choosing the particular dictation activities in teaching English at State Islamic Junior High School Surabaya. This study used qualitative descriptive method by distributing online questionnaires about dictation activities used by teachers and online interviewing about teachers’ reason choosing the particular dictation activities in teaching English. The subjects of this study are two English teachers from State Islamic Junior High School 4 and 2 Surabaya who have used dictation activities in teaching English. The result showed that the two teachers from different schools used dictation of long phrases and sentence dictation in teaching English. The use of two dictation activities help students get used to listen in English, students are able to re-write what they have listened, and understand word phrases and part of each sentence. Furthermore, teachers also teach how to write well such as the use of punctuation like (.) and (,) based on duration given by teachers, how to use capital letters well, and how to write at a good speed. The findings imply that the most familiar dictation activities used by teachers in teaching English at State Islamic Junior High School Surabaya are dictation of long phrases and sentence dictation because both dictation activities have a same reasons in teaching English at State Islamic Junior High School Surabaya.