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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Dear Charles or whoever answers, Is it Maori? Pauline Johnson ________________________________ From: duncanfoord <duncan@...> To:...
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Charles Hadfield
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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...
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
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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...
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
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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
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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...
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...
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
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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...
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...
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
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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...
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...
Dear Pauline I was very interested in your posting about teaching English in a German university setting, the constraints of the rigidly imposed curriculum (at...
Dear Rose Senior, Thank you for your sympathetic reply. I must be a bad communicator because it's all the other way round from what you have understood. Within...
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Charles Hadfield
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Jun 22, 2009 8:34 pm
Kia ora whanau! Yes, Barney, one thing that really intrigues me in my Maori lessons is being immersed in a totally different culture for large parts of the...
Kia ora whanau! I absolutely agree that the German education turns out some highly competent English users. That's my problem. I have my doubts about the...
Hi Everybody  I have been reading the debate with great interest since it's been going on in my head for the past few years. The immersion technique was how...
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Charles Hadfield
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Jun 23, 2009 8:32 pm
Kia ora whanau! Very interesting comment Archana: I was looking around my class last night (final written Maori assesssment) and noting the huge wide variety ...
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Juliet du Mont
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Jun 24, 2009 3:21 pm
Kia ora whanau! Perhaps we should make this the standard greeting for the SIG?! Charles – I can’t wait to hear how you’ve done in the Maori written exam...
I¹ve been intrigued and fascinated by this recent exchange. I¹m particularly struck by the reported differences between what we as teachers think we¹re ...
Are teachers still vital for the learning process or are we gradually becoming redundant in the flashy company of visual interactive wonders that are on offer?...
