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...
"...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...
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. ...
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...
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...
    Here an article about a topic worth discussing: http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i06/06a00102.htm  **teachers in U.S. higher education getting fired...
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
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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
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
But as we know Dominic reality is something quite different (L L very sadly ….) … which is why understanding contextual constraints are crucial for...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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 ...
Having plucked up enough courage to join in the discussion earlier this afternoon, I’m having another go. My greatest challenge is a) coping with the fact...
Bill, Thanks very much for your helpful advice. I am looking through the information contained on the websites as I am writing this, having already spoken to...
Wendy, You are right. It took me four years before anyone realised that I existed where I work. It will obviously take longer outside of the province; however,...
