A Study of the Psychological Mechanism and Strategies in TEM4 Dictation

Dictation aims to examine students' integrated English competence,and it is also an effective means of teaching evaluation.Attention and working memory play critical roles in the information processing of dictation,which can be divided into three stages,that is,input,processing and output.The psychological information processing in dictation is analiged.Then the important role of attention and working memory in dictation are emphasized and several dictation strategies are put forward.