Dictation education / teaching: From dictation up to short message

Synoptic study of the bibliography of the language teaching methods indicate that primarily, audio visual methods using applied linguistics have made the oral language outstanding and eminent. Since then, the new methods of language teaching have offered appropriate written exercises to the language learners. Due to the significance of the electronic communication in the present societies, the written language has becomeconspicuous, and therefore its socio-cultural role should be considered in the formulation of these methods. The present essay is aiming to demonstrate the deficiencies of the dictation teaching in different methods in order to encourage the trainees to compensate these shortcomings. Thus, the students could learn the regulations concerning the code of written language and become able to write and to read variety of messages (i.e. SMS & E-mails).