Today developing communicative competence is the ultimate aim of English education and it is essential to improve listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. But the writing skill has been given the lowest priority among English language skills i...
Today developing communicative competence is the ultimate aim of English education and it is essential to improve listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. But the writing skill has been given the lowest priority among English language skills in Korea. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of dictogloss on middle school students' English writing skill and attitude toward English learning.
For this study, the experiment was carried out for eight weeks, from the first week of March to the fourth week of April and the subjects of this study were two third grade classes. They were divided into experimental group and control group. During the experiment, the experimental group has been taught by dictogloss and the control group has been taught by the way which was presented in the 7th National English Curriculum.
The results of this experiment are as follows:
First, the experimental group's writing ability was higher than the control group's after having dictogloss lessons. It shows that using dictogloss task can help students acquire English writing skill effectively.
Second, the experimental group showed a higher interest and a positive influence on students' attitude toward English learning compared with the control group's. Dictogloss can be more effective activity than any other activities to arouse student's necessity and the importance of English learning.
According to these results of this study, some implications can be drawn for English writing ability and attitudes toward English learning. Dictogloss is recommended as a way to improve students' other communicative skills as well as their writing skills and positive learning attitudes. For having the successful effects of dictogloss in English teaching, however, teachers should prepare the teaching materials and plan the lesson throughly. And the researches on the effective use of dictogloss on other language skills are left for the further investigation. If teachers keep doing those studies about dictogloss and try to use it in class, it can be very useful way of teaching English writing skill, improving students' communicative competence and arousing their interests in English learning.