I posted six things for developing teachers on Lindsay Clandfield's blog. The link is below. i'd be interested in your opinions. or better still you could add...
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duncanfoord
Apr 17, 2009 5:34 pm
Here is Adrian Underhill's second article of three, reproduced here for those of you who didn't see it in the newsletter. As you can see he has incorporated...
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williamezimmerman
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Apr 17, 2009 5:36 pm
Dear TESOL colleague, For those of you who could not attend my workshop on Creating Comic Strips Online to Encourage Writing, Reading and Storytelling at the...
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williamezimmerman
williamezimm...
Apr 22, 2009 3:31 pm
MakeBeliefsComix Offers Earth Day Printable For Students to Write and Draw About the Environment If you're looking for a good activity today to help students...
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Pauline Johnson
paunjohnson
Apr 22, 2009 8:37 pm
Dear Duncan, I've just read what you had to say about your "Six things." I did my DELTA in 1987. (It was then called the RSA Diploma in TEFLA). I then...
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Juliet du Mont
julietdumont@...
Apr 23, 2009 8:31 am
Hi Pauline, I don't think Duncan is suggesting rehashing the content of the Delta or MA (although the content of these qualifications does seem to evolve and...
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Adrian Tennant
adrian.tennant@...
Apr 23, 2009 9:38 am
Hi Pauline, Well, to take a slightly different angle from the one Juliet took let's try an analogy. If you were going in for an operation and the surgeon said...
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colin@...
tontojeddu
Apr 23, 2009 10:05 am
Hi I totally agree with Adrian when he says that "Duncan's main point is that learning is an ongoing process and as teachers we should be constantly trying to...
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williamezimmerman
williamezimm...
Apr 25, 2009 11:28 am
MakeBeliefsComix Offers Poetry Month Printable For Students to Write and Sing The Songs of Themselves If you're looking for a creative way to help students...
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bill_templer
May 3, 2009 7:43 am
Bill Z. has a lot of nice writing prompts on his site, as the one he recommended for 'Song of Myself' ...
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duncanfoord
May 8, 2009 1:33 pm
Delta publishing have a new blog which promotes their methodology books. The first month includes a video of Scott Thornbury talking about his new book,...
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duncanfoord
May 27, 2009 2:47 pm
OxfordTEFL is looking for a teacher trainer with experience teaching primary school children to join a team of 3 trainers training Chinese school teachers for...
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duncanfoord
Jun 1, 2009 3:08 pm
This month I am doing the Delta teacher development blog. the link is below. if anyone would like to participate that would be great. We will be discussing TD...
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duncanfoord
Jun 3, 2009 9:19 pm
Learning a language is great for teacher development. I was reminded of this when I attended a talk by Richard Gallen at IATEFL about his experiences of...
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duncanfoord
Jun 10, 2009 12:16 pm
Post from Charlie Hadfield Tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa! I started a new language in evening classes a couple of months ago...and agree with...
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duncanfoord
Jun 10, 2009 12:30 pm
a second installment on Catalan classes Still enjoying them. Our teacher has used 2 You tube clips and a text from literature in the last 3 lessons. Authentic...
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Pauline Johnson
paunjohnson
Jun 10, 2009 2:59 pm
Dear Charles or whoever answers, Is it Maori? Pauline Johnson ________________________________ From: duncanfoord <duncan@...> To:...
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Charles Hadfield
chadfield@...
Jun 10, 2009 8:45 pm
Pauline, tena koe. Yes, it certainly is. You win today's first prize... What I am going through is I suppose what many 'older' learners do in our ESOL classes...
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Pauline Johnson
paunjohnson
Jun 10, 2009 8:59 pm
Dear Charles Hadfield, I'M so thrilled. I use your books on writing. The reason I thought it was Maori was because I was crazy about the film about the whales....
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Charles Hadfield
chadfield@...
Jun 10, 2009 10:43 pm
Kia ora Pauline: the film is WHALE RIDER, with Keisha Castle Hughes in the lead role playing a 10? year old girl. Based on a novel of same name by Whiti...
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duncanfoord
Jun 11, 2009 12:06 pm
That's interesting about the older learner angle. I hadn't thought of mself that way in my class though I'm sure my teacher has :) My classmate and the teacher...
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Juliet du Mont
julietdumont@...
Jun 13, 2009 11:21 pm
Hi Duncan, So glad you mentioned about the Kia-ora drink first - I was thinking about it whilst getting up to date with this email exchange and feeling silly....
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Charles Hadfield
chadfield@...
Jun 18, 2009 9:08 pm
Kia ora whanau! Yes, thanks for reminding me about the drink – I remember it from the 1950s, and wonder when it faded out of view…during the sixties I...
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Barney Griffiths
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Jun 19, 2009 7:16 am
Bon dia a tots! (Catalan, same region as Duncan but further north) I definitely had Kia ora at the cinema in the seventies, still remember the Disney-style...
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duncanfoord
Jun 19, 2009 12:56 pm
Hi Barney how is it then that people can risk their personal safety to protest for democracy but 9 students in a class of 10 cant get the kind of learning...
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Juliet du Mont
julietdumont@...
Jun 19, 2009 6:56 pm
Gosh, that Kia-Ora bottle has got some press! Fun. Well, language learning ... Yes - I had a dreadful experience learning Kiswahili some years ago - I think...
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Barney Griffiths
griffiths_ba...
Jun 19, 2009 7:27 pm
I think the answer to Duncan's post lies in the fact that students do not generally know what they want in terms of language teaching activities, they rely on...
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Pauline Johnson
paunjohnson
Jun 21, 2009 8:41 am
I’ve been wanting to answer something that Duncan Foord said some time back about learners being in charge of what they learn. It connects with what was...
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Charles Hadfield
chadfield@...
Jun 21, 2009 8:24 pm
Kia ora! And I mean ‘hello’ not ‘orange juice’. I think we are agreeing, Juliet! I think what I have noticed about the student-teacher...
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Barney Griffiths
griffiths_ba...
Jun 22, 2009 7:14 am
Changing a German system on your own? Now there's a challenge, Pauline. I left Germany to work in Spain, and I can't say it was a bad choice. I teach at Girona...
