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Dictation: Transcription Skills Flashcards

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  1. You hear: 'We need to leave by seven o'clock in the morning.' A test-taker writes: 'We need to leave by seven a clock in the morning.' What is the error?

    Answer: Mishearing 'o'clock' as 'a clock' — a phonological transcription error

    The phrase 'o'clock' was misheard and transcribed as 'a clock,' a phonological error caused by mishearing the contracted form.

  2. Which of the following best describes the role of spelling in the VEPT dictation section?

    Answer: Correct spelling is required because a misspelled word is treated as an error

    Because dictation produces written output, misspelled words do not accurately represent the spoken input and are penalized.

  3. You hear a sentence and need to transcribe it. The sentence ends with rising intonation. What does this typically signal about punctuation?

    Answer: A question mark should be used at the end

    Rising intonation at a sentence's end typically marks a yes/no question in English, signaling that a question mark is appropriate.

  4. A test-taker hears 'The manager approved the budget' but writes 'The managers approved the budget.' What has changed?

    Answer: The subject 'manager' was incorrectly pluralized to 'managers'

    Adding an 's' to 'manager' changes it from singular to plural, altering the sentence's meaning through a substitution error.

  5. Which of the following would best prepare a test-taker for the VEPT dictation section?

    Answer: Regularly practicing transcribing audio recordings of natural English speech

    Transcribing real audio recordings builds the integrated listening-and-writing skill that VEPT dictation directly assesses.

  6. You hear: 'She was particularly impressed by the team's dedication.' A test-taker writes: 'She was particularly impressed by the teams dedication.' What is missing?

    Answer: The apostrophe in 'team's' showing possession

    Omitting the apostrophe from 'team's' removes the possessive marker, making it a punctuation/spelling error.

  7. In the context of VEPT dictation, what does 'verbatim transcription' mean?

    Answer: Writing down every word exactly as it was spoken, in the same order

    Verbatim means word-for-word; in dictation, this requires reproducing the exact words in the exact sequence they were spoken.