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2. Dictation (exercise) - Wikipedia

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   Dictation is the transcription of spoken text: one person who is "dictating" speaks and another who is "taking dictation" writes down the words as they are spoken. Among speakers of several languages, dictation is used as a test of language skill, similar to spelling bees in the English-speaking world. Secondary to teaching language skills, the ...

3. Direct method (education) - Wikipedia

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   The direct method is also known as the natural method. It was developed as a reaction to the grammar-translation method and is designed to take the learner into the domain of the target language in the most natural manner. The main objective is to impart a perfect command of a foreign language. The main focus is to make the learner think in the ...

4. Transcription (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   Transcription should not be confused with translation, which means representing the meaning of text from a source-language in a target language, (e.g. Los Angeles (from source-language Spanish) means The Angels in the target language English); or with transliteration, which means representing the spelling of a text from one script to another.

5. Audio-lingual method - Wikipedia

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   The audio-lingual method or Army Method is a method used in teaching foreign languages. It is based on behaviorist theory, which postulates that certain traits of living things, and in this case humans, could be trained through a system of reinforcement. The correct use of a trait would receive positive feedback while incorrect use of that ...

6. Shorthand - Wikipedia

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   Shorthand. Shorthand is an abbreviated symbolic writing method that increases speed and brevity of writing as compared to longhand, a more common method of writing a language. The process of writing in shorthand is called stenography, from the Greek stenos (narrow) and graphein (to write).

7. Pronunciation assessment - Wikipedia

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   Pronunciation assessment. Automatic pronunciation assessment is the use of speech recognition to verify the correctness of pronounced speech, [1] [2] as distinguished from manual assessment by an instructor or proctor. [3] Also called speech verification, pronunciation evaluation, and pronunciation scoring, the main application of this ...