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The test of the mastery of these characters normally involves dictation and cloze exercises.
Typing to dictation was used as a measure of simple wpm and was used to qualify the obtained writing fluency measure.
Repetition, reading aloud and writing to dictation of regularly spelt words are essentially intact, reflecting preservation of phonological and articulatory skills.
Summing the dictation, transcription, and review times, a cardiology in-patient discharge note takes an average of 80.8 days to complete.
Dictation is the process by which the physician verbally records the encounter with the patient into a storage device, such as a cassette recorder.
We asked children to spell to dictation two-morpheme words in which target clusters appeared in different morphemes of the word, either in the word stem or in the case inflection.
Dictation and reading were considered the best things for a new teacher to begin with, for those were the 'easiest forms of communicating instruction in a foreign language'.
Of the 4 who reported frequently using dictation, 3 combined this with frequent use of the word processor, and 2 with frequent use of the pen or pencil.
Let the arbitrary dictation and exploitation of capital be met and opposed by regulations for the protection of the wage-labourer and for securing him a proportionate share in the profits.
He was able to copy a few words, but his spontaneous writing and his writing to dictation were severely impaired, even when using his left hand.
A vocabulary-based graded dictation test.
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