5 Steps to Effective Dictation Practice

Today I'll suggest a short 5-step process for the most effective listening dictation with WELE Vietnam.

Step 1: Listen and Transcribe

At this step, you should read the WELE admins' introduction to the listening passage to get a rough idea of what it's about. This is especially important for beginners, to help you avoid the most terrifying situation in the solar system: "Duck Hearing Thunder."

To listen faster, you can use https://wele-learn.com/, which integrates all the functions above for listening dictation.

Step 2: Check Your Work Before Submitting.

If in Step 1 you listened with your ears to catch all the easy words, then in this Step 2, listen with your "brain." Why is that? Why does this step require the "brain" to listen instead of the "ears"?

While listening, I've come across many cases of mishearing, especially homophones with different meanings. Because when the ear picks up a word, our lazy brain prioritizes the more familiar words first, while the less familiar ones (the correct word in the listening passage) don't get priority.

So checking with your "brain" after listening is very important. You need to check all the vocabulary, grammar, and structures to see if everything's fine. Always ask a question whenever something looks off. And when you've used up all your "internal energy" of English built over more than a decade of "training" and it's still not clear, ask the great hero Google, or post on the group and ask the "We EnJoy LearNing EngLish masters" for help. You'll definitely get an answer.

Step 3: Submit

The feeling of finishing a painfully long listening passage.

The feeling of hitting the submit button.

The feeling of getting the notification that your submission was successful.

The feeling of being done while everyone else is still struggling.

How does that feel, guys? Isn't it just pure bliss — the long, drawn-out kind of "aahh"?

Step 4: Check Against the Answer Key

Combine listening to the passage again with checking and comparing it against the answer key. Note down the mistakes you made and draw your own lessons from them, write down the words and phrases you really liked in the listening passage, etc. This is the very process by which you teach yourself and draw your own experience, so don't skip this step!

Step 5: Take Action

Apply the good phrases and good sentences you've noted down to all 4 skills — listening, speaking, reading, writing. For each listening passage, you can pick out a few good phrases or sentences to learn and apply. The tip for making sentences here is to make a sentence similar to the sample sentence, changing just a little, and you're sure to write a correct sentence. Once you're proficient and understand how to use that word or phrase, you can absolutely create your own sentences. Remember: proficiency first, then creativity.

Thank you for reading this share of mine, and I wish everyone a very happy and healthy holiday!

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