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TokyoLiz · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 1548 Location: Tokyo, Japan

In my senior high first year class, my team teacher and I cooked up some dictagloss activities to get the students listening to the teacher, cooperating with each other and writing.

I remember seeing an OUP book with a title like Dictagloss or something, but I can't quite recall. I checked Amazon and OUP sites, but couldn't find it. Perhaps dictagloss was in the subtitle and it's called something else.

Also, can anybody recommend a simplified news website? I found the Westcoast Reader site from Vancouver's Capilano College. Here's their url http://www.capcollege.bc.ca/about/publications/westcoast-reader/index.htm

Westcoast Reader covers some world news and Western Canada. I'm looking for world news. Any ideas?

Celeste · Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 1:18 am Post subject:

Try some of the links on this site:
http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/information/tesl-ej/ej13/int.html

This may also put you in touch with people who would have more information:

http://www.extensivereading.net/index.html

Brooks · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 1369 Location: Sagamihara

in the Oxford catalogue you can find a book by Ruth Wajnryb called Grammar Dictation. It is one of the Resource Books for Teachers, edited by Alan Maley. I think that is the book you mean, since it is about dictogloss.

Gordon · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 5309 Location: Japan

Brooks is right.

shmooj · Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 1758 Location: Seoul, ROK

TokyoLiz · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 1548 Location: Tokyo, Japan

Thanks, folks!

Brooks, I think that 's the book I'm after.

I'm still searching for easy reading news sites. I'll post about any I find in case others are interested.