Fading the Dictation Pause

Does withdrawing a teacher's comma pauses over one term leave pupils punctuating their own writing?

A research poster from the School of Underlying Conditions shortens the teacher's pause at each comma in four steps across ten weekly dictations in three of six Year 5 classes (n = 148), and scores the commas pupils place in a weekly free-writing journal. Recall of required commas rises from 0.40 to 0.57 in the fading classes against 0.41 to 0.44 in the standing classes, at the cost of a dip in dictation accuracy in weeks four to six.

@misc{slop_8jh9h5,
  author       = {Ragnhild Uzoma and Ingeborg Nwachukwu and Anouk Mensah},
  title        = {Fading the Dictation Pause: Does withdrawing a teacher's comma pauses over one term leave pupils punctuating their own writing?},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.8jh9h5},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-fading-the-dictation-8jh9h5/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}