Finally, they give support to less confident students, as they are encouraged to participate in their groups as part of the structure of the activity.
[4] The original dictogloss method, introduced by Ruth Wajnryb, was developed with the intention of being a tool for enhancing grammar.
Rather than being lectured to and studying independently, dictogloss activities allow students to identify their struggles with learning a language, which an instructor can then address instead of focusing on areas which may not need additional support.
The uninterrupted speech of the dictogloss activity is better suited to real-life situations like lectures or films than spontaneous dialogues.
Specific genre conventions that improve with the addition of dictogloss activities are students' implementation of subheadings, topic sentences, and more deliberate paragraph structure.