Abstract: The advantage of dictation in class is economical and productive, for it can give much language input to learners and help them produce much language output within a short time. Repeated e xperiments reveal that one needs to employ many learning strate gies in order to accomplish a dictation task success fully.The writer suggests that dictation be employed in class room teaching to improve the s tudents' comprehensive skills in language study.

Key words: dictation, strategy, comprehensive skills