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 \nAbstract  \nThis study investigates the effectiveness of using dictogloss in making students notice and reproduce key vocabulary and highlighted structural features in a college intermediate level Arabic L2 class. Dictogloss is a technique used in second language classes to make students pay attention to the relationship between form and meaning. Students listened to a short text containing the target form(s) read aloud by the instructor. Students were asked to work in small groups/pairs to reconstruct the original text. Data for this study were obtained from individual student notes, group-generated text reconstructions, and post-dictogloss reflections. The results of this classroom-based investigation showa significant gap between individual student notes and the final groups-reconstructed texts in terms of both quantity and quality.  \nSecond language (L2) teachers face the dilemma of how to teach grammar within the communicative language teaching approach while at the same time assuring that learners process or notice key targeted forms. Second language acquisition (SLA) research indicates that the language accuracy of learners in immersion programs on certain forms lags significantly behind their fluency (Swain, 1993). There is heightened discussion in SLA on how to incorporate effectively the teaching of grammar in a communicative approach, i.e., focus on form (Doughty & Williams, 1998; Ellis, 2002; Norris & Ortega, 2000). The challenge in teaching grammar or form in a learner-centered, communicative language teaching approach lies in the (in)ability of learners to notice the targeted form and make the necessary form-meaning connection (Thornburry, 1997) . In this study, the targeted form is the imperative verb in Arabic. The form of the imperative verb in Arabic differs from the form of the present tense in terms of prefixes and suffixes. The morphosyntactic difference is illustrated in the example below:  \nta-ktub-ee_na you (feminine) are writing (present tense verb) u-ktub-ee write down (you. feminine) (imperative verb)  \nThis study highlights a classroom-based action research project on using dictogloss with an intermediate proficiency, college-level Arabic class. The purpose of the inquiry was to find out if using dictogloss could ensure that learners notice or pay attention to the imperative in the context of learning about food recipes and subsequently be able to produce the target forms in their reconstruction of the original text. In particular, the study compares individual written notes of group members  \nUsing Dictogloss to Advance Proficiency 47  \nwith the group’s reconstructed text with regard to the correct production ofthe imperative verb in Arabic and learners’ ability to comprehend and produce key vocabulary from the original text. This study attempts to answer the following questions:  \n1. Among key structural forms and vocabulary, in which domain do individual students demonstrate a greater degree of‘noticing’from dictogloss activities?  \n2. Does working in groups substantially improve performance on both categories above?  \n3. To what extent does the collectively reconstructed text match the original one with regard to key vocabulary, imperative verbs, and discourse markers?  \nLiterature Review  \nDictogloss is an integrative approach that focuses on form and meaning as well as on comprehension and production at the same time (Jacobs, 2003; Vasiljevic, 2010) . Because of its design, dictogloss provides learners with goal-oriented tasks suitable for collaborative work in which learners interact with each other while negotiating meaning. While performing a dictogloss task, students collaborate with eachother using their knowledge of grammar, vocabulary, context, and style to reconstruct a text that has been read to them by their instructor (Swain & Lapkin, 2001; Thornburry, 1997). 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