Outlines the history of the use of dictation in foreign language teaching from the 16th century to the present day. Shows that the evolution of attitudes toward dictation has run parallel to the evolution of attitudes toward foreign language teaching.(SED)

This discussion begins with a brief description of three approaches to teaching standard Spanish as a second dialect (S.S.S.D.), called the "eradication" approach, the "second dialect" approach, and the "both dialects" approach, which is favored here. Because the teacher of standard Spanish as a second dialect is…