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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 38 Effective foreign language teaching and assessment tools 【Abstract】 Dictation is an effective means of foreign language teaching as well as teaching evaluation. The scholars criticized the worthiness of its practicality and even were against it both at home and abroad at the beginning. As the language testing entered the psycho-socio - linguistic stage, Hymes’s theory of communicative competence and Oller’s theory of ‘Unitary Competence Hypothesis’ were put forward, dictation is applied widely in the foreign language classroom. As an effective teaching strategy, dictation has its own theory of the psycholinguistics. The language information processing system, and the application of the top-down and bottom-up approaches have exerted their significant functions in the whole process of dictation. Dictation is conducive to improve the receptive skill of listening and the productive skill of writing, which can also facilitate the students ‘integrated linguistic competence. However, people have some prejudice against dictation. Hence, dictation fails to gain enough attention in the foreign language teaching. Based upon psycholinguistic theory, the paper analyses the language information processing system and the psychological process. And it also introduces six kinds of dictation and explores the significance of dictation in the foreign language teaching and teaching evaluation based on the analysis of some common errors made in dictation, and tries to meet the purpose of developing students’ integrated linguistic competence by cultivating their dictation ability through teaching . 【Key Words】 dictation; FL teaching; FL teaching evaluation; skill Abstract dictation of foreign language teaching is an effective assessment tools is also an effective means of teaching foreign languages. Although the value has been used before the fact, critics and scholars at home and abroad, and even opposition, but the dictation in the lan