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Bill Templer
bill_templer
Aug 1, 2008 12:53 pm
Here an article on LOT -- Lives of Teachers as a research focus  http://gisig.iatefl.org/resources/articles/exploring_teachers_lives.pdf  --Bill Here an...
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Duncan Foord
duncanfoord
Aug 4, 2008 10:11 am
Thanks Bill Very interesting _____ De: TDSIG@yahoogroups.com [mailto:TDSIG@yahoogroups.com] En nombre de Bill Templer Enviado el: viernes, 01 de agosto de 2008...
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M. Iqbal
iqbaldhudhra
Aug 5, 2008 3:58 am
Dear Muhammad, This month's New Writing 15 website is now live. The theme for this month's focus is Work. Crime fiction and chick lit are the two contemporary...
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duncanfoord
Sep 29, 2008 2:34 pm
Hope you all enjoyed your summer. I thought we could try doing a topic monthly. Weekly and even 2 weekly is probably a bit ambitious. Remember if you have a...
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Anthony Gaughan
celta_tutor
Sep 29, 2008 7:05 pm
"...Constructivism is just a passing fashion. It will be forgotten in a few years" Do you agree? Well, whether I agree or not, three points: 1) many things may...
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darrenrelliott
Sep 30, 2008 12:37 am
Considering virtually every presentation I`ve attended in the last couple of years has cited Vygotsky at some point, I think the concept still has legs. ...
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Bill Templer
bill_templer
Sep 30, 2008 1:26 am
In response to Duncan, constructivist pedagogies are hardly a passing fad. Much of what’s progressive in EFL teaching, student-centered, geared to...
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M. Iqbal
iqbaldhudhra
Sep 30, 2008 4:30 am
Dear Members Could you please let me know where (on internet) can I read the poet Edward Lear? I am reading English poets now a days I want to include this...
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dominic mccabe
dominicxx2002
Sep 30, 2008 9:16 pm
Hi Iqbal If you put Gutenberg project into google and then once you have got to the site search Lear you will get a fairly good selection of his works...
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Bill Templer
bill_templer
Oct 1, 2008 1:27 am
    Here an article about a topic worth discussing: http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i06/06a00102.htm  **teachers in U.S. higher education getting fired...
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duncanfoord
Dec 1, 2008 4:23 pm
Well november came and went . Falling leaves they call it in Czech. Thanks to those who contributed in October. I particularly enjoyed the link on...
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Julie Tamblin
julietamblin@...
Dec 1, 2008 5:11 pm
Maybe we could have a debate on 'What is the biggest challenge facing us all?' This may bring out some interesting points of view... Julie Learn English in...
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Juliet du Mont
julietdumont@...
Dec 2, 2008 1:53 pm
I think Mojca's suggestion a good one! Juliet To: TDSIG@...: duncan@...: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 16:23:32 +0000Subject: [TDSIG] December...
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duncanfoord
Dec 2, 2008 3:54 pm
Thanks to Julie again for offering us a splendid title. I have invited the TD SIG committee to post a response to get things going. I'm sure they will have...
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duncanfoord
Dec 2, 2008 4:31 pm
The Discussion List has been quiet since our last newsletter. Some hot debate pre summer, followed by a summer break and then, well, the leaves fell in...
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Colin Mackenzie
tontojeddu
Dec 2, 2008 8:54 pm
Hello All I find this one really hard to answer, in fact so hard that I misread it as "What's the biggest challenge facing you?" which is much easier to...
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Allison Bill
allison_bill1
Dec 2, 2008 11:10 pm
I think the biggest challenge in my context (EFL in Asia, particularly in South Korea) is getting students to believe in themselves. Even after more than 8...
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Steve Graham
shed_chelsea
Dec 3, 2008 2:11 am
I am in a similar situation as Allison. In Thailand, students arrive at university after completing eight years of English language education. Thai law states...
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Juliet du Mont
julietdumont@...
Dec 3, 2008 9:27 am
I think the question we are answering has, in fact, become ‘what is the biggest challenge we are facing as individual teachers’. In light of the broader...
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Wendy
wendyahk
Dec 3, 2008 4:15 pm
Hi all from Las Vegas Juliet, I guess if you sold the idea of TPR to Asians as a form of tai chi, it would be fine . and in fact a slow motion TPR could...
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dominic mccabe
dominicxx2002
Dec 3, 2008 4:32 pm
Overthrow a capitalist system predicated on the nonsense of individual heroes and heroines carving out their destiny on the plains of the western prairie move...
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Wendy
wendyahk
Dec 3, 2008 5:18 pm
Couldn’t agree more Dominic …. I hated being part of this in Hong Kong … system starts as early as Primary 1 (6 years old) with 4 tests/year which are...
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dominic mccabe
dominicxx2002
Dec 3, 2008 9:39 pm
You see the things is that I would go for the imaginative, learner and learning centred assessment strategies I often read about on the ylsig list (mainly from...
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Wendy
wendyahk
Dec 3, 2008 10:14 pm
But as we know Dominic reality is something quite different (L L very sadly ….) … which is why understanding contextual constraints are crucial for...
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Steve Graham
shed_chelsea
Dec 3, 2008 11:49 pm
Wendy, What about the non native speakers of English who are the teachers in one of the countries we have been discussing? What if they decide that it is all...
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Wendy
wendyahk
Dec 4, 2008 12:15 am
Hi there .. Steve I was referring to non-native teachers L . for the older ones, they've seen so many education cycles/reforms and taken so many knocks, they...
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Steve Graham
shed_chelsea
Dec 4, 2008 8:05 am
I am in total agreement with Wendy, we have some very similar situations to contend with. I have started a project, "from the bottom up" where we are training...
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Pauline Johnson
paunjohnson
Dec 4, 2008 1:58 pm
I must confess that I've never joined in any of the discussions before because I wasn't sure how to go about doing so. Let's hope this e-mail arrives. ...
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Wendy
wendyahk
Dec 4, 2008 4:28 pm
Hi there Steve, you're def. up for the challenge! But be warned it takes time to develop the trust of the people you work with . one-day wonders who zap down ...
