“…Mohammed (2015) mentions that some people might take a stereotypical approach to dictation and consider it old-fashioned, boring, and a teacher-centered method (Mohammed, 2015). The teacher-led dictation (TLD) method has been widely used in English as a foreign language (EFL) classrooms (Alkire, 2002;Davis & Rinvolucri, 2002;Fountain & Nation, 2000;Habibi, Nemati, & Habibi, 2012;Kavaliauskienė & Darginavičienė, 2009;Kazazoğlu, 2013;Kiany & Shiramiry, 2002;Montalvan, 1990;Morris, 1983;Natalicio, 1979;Oller, 1979;Rahimi, 2008;Sawyer & Silver, 1972), while the text-to-speech (TTS) method is a new attempt to improve language learning among EFL students (Biancarosa & Griffiths, 2012;Eksi & Yesilcinar, 2016;Tang, 2012), especially in the area of reading comprehension (Wood, Moxley, Tighe, & Wagner, 2018).…”