Hi, everybody: Happy New Year and all the best for 2006. I hope you all enjoyed the holidays and could pamper yourself a bit. I spent a week in New York, ...
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Gavin Dudeney
gavindudeney
Jan 5, 2006 1:37 pm
************************************************ 2006 International Symposium of Computer Assisted Language Learning June 2-4, 2006 Beijing, China Paper...
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Wilkinson B (LANGUAGES)
unst1975
Jan 6, 2006 4:03 pm
Nice to kick of the new year with another discussion, Elka, and of course best wishes to everyone for the new year. The topic is closely related to earlier...
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Juliet du Mont
julietdumont@...
Jan 9, 2006 11:16 am
Hi there, Having just read Bob's contribution I'll add something which his comments triggered in me, rather than revert to Elke's original material. The email...
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Elka Todeva
elkatodeva
Jan 10, 2006 5:05 am
A brief response to Bob’s and Juliet’s postings. Bob is right of course that we are not dealing with an either-or situation when looking at learning and...
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Jenny de Sonneville
jennydesonne...
Jan 11, 2006 7:06 am
Fascinating, Elka. That is what I had been thinking about these days and then you expressed it so clearly: "we are focusing on the two ends of the continuum -...
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Jenny de Sonneville
jennydesonne...
Jan 13, 2006 8:16 am
Elka, I'd like to respond briefly to your initial quotes. I agree with Vygotsky - that so much depends on our social context and the "important others" around ...
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Elka Todeva
elkatodeva
Jan 15, 2006 5:27 am
Jenny, I agree that one should be responsible for one's development and not blame the system alone for things that go wrong. Again we are talking about OPTIMAL...
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diarmuid_fogarty
diarmuid_fog...
Jan 17, 2006 12:05 pm
Sorry for butting in, but... one of my students is working towards writing a proposal for an MA in Education. She is interested in researching the lack of...
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Krystal Jamet
krystal.jamet@...
Jan 17, 2006 2:13 pm
humility, community, empathy, respect, humour, optimism, the MA program I'm working on... What's the organization of the day March 11? more -oia words? (It's a...
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Alan Pulverness
alanpulverness
Jan 17, 2006 4:27 pm
Diarmuid - A website she might find useful is the "Teaching English" section of the BBC/British Council China's "in2english" at http://www.in2english.com.cn ...
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Krystal Jamet
krystal.jamet@...
Jan 17, 2006 7:29 pm
Funny choice of the direct greeting in the salutation, Diarmuid, and third person singular she in the body of the text, as if the person receiving the message...
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Duncan Baker - Lydbur...
lydbury
Jan 17, 2006 9:45 pm
Addressing Diarmuid in the greeting and then talking about Diarmuid's student as "she" in the body of the text (as Diarmuid did in her original message). Yup,...
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Alan Pulverness
alanpulverness
Jan 18, 2006 10:25 am
No, it's just typically elliptical / conversational email style, simply picking up and extending the pronoun reference, 'she', [= 'one of my students'] in...
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Krystal Jamet
krystal.jamet@...
Jan 18, 2006 10:45 am
This kind of ('tends to' you Brits might say?) reminds me of the sorts of examples given in differences between spoken and written grammar, Ã la Nottingham...
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Alan Pulverness
alanpulverness
Jan 19, 2006 1:06 am
Don’t beat yourself up about it - it just demonstrates the extent to which email exchanges approximate to conversational behaviour, I guess…. _____ From:...
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Elka Todeva
elkatodeva
Jan 20, 2006 4:22 am
Hi folks: In a few hours I am leaving for Mexico to do supervision at several sites there, which means that for the next month and a half I won't have regular...
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Jackie Robbins
jrobbins11567
Jan 20, 2006 8:45 am
Dear all, I´ve been reading the various contributions to this discussion site and what I´ve found most interesting is that the fielded discussions generated...
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Jenny de Sonneville
jennydesonne...
Jan 20, 2006 10:29 am
Dear Jackie & all "the fielded discussions generated responses from relatively few" I agree that it's useful to reflect on why the fielded discussions generate...
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Rodney Tan Chai Whatt
chaiwhatt
Jan 20, 2006 10:44 am
Dear Jackie, I agree with your observation & experience that attending Teacher Development courses and seminars does help in my own personal teaching ...
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Jackie Robbins
jrobbins11567
Jan 20, 2006 11:23 am
MessageThanks so much for your response Jenny. I also agree that Elka has been doing a great job and I actually think the topics were really interesting too. I...
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Diarmuid Fogarty
diarmuid_fog...
Jan 20, 2006 11:38 am
Personally, I would have loved to join in any discussion of Vygotsky's theories, but came (back) to this list too late. I hope to read the previous posts soon...
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Theron Muller
theron_muller
Jan 20, 2006 2:28 pm
Jackie, I would agree with your opinion wholeheartedly. I’ve found that a major source of energy and innovation in my classroom comes from time spent in ...
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ignatia-kirkland306@...
Jan 20, 2006 3:44 pm
Yeah I know, I never really thought this stuff would work either, but honestly I stand totally corrected. This place http://www.matchfunhere.info/fhlm is...
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Halima Brewer
halibrewer
Jan 22, 2006 11:35 am
I agree - with no in service talks or seminars, or conferences, work can get very routine and the inspiration drains out. I used to attend a biggish sort of...
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Ingrid Gürtler
ingrid.guertler@...
Jan 22, 2006 4:34 pm
Hello everybody, Not that I have in the past contributed to these discussions in any gigantic way, but the reasons for my complete silence in the last one - ...
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Juliet du Mont
julietdumont@...
Jan 23, 2006 10:25 pm
Hi Ingrid et al, Lots of interesting points being raised here. Let´s get into this one: the conflict of admin work as opposed to teaching, and any...
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Ingrid Gürtler
ingrid.guertler@...
Jan 24, 2006 10:12 pm
Well, I would say, not only the conflict of admin work as opposed to teaching, but also the conflict between sensible course planning (which is part of my...
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Jenny de Sonneville
jennydesonne...
Feb 8, 2006 8:48 am
Hi Ingrid and Juliet, In your emails I could recognise so many aspects similar to my own situation: "the conflict of admin work as opposed to teaching, but...
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Ingrid Gürtler
ingrid.guertler@...
Feb 8, 2006 6:57 pm
Hi Jenny, It´s good to hear that others out there are having similar problems. We too have "acquired"; various departments that bring us very little but are...
