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
griffiths_ba...
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...
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Rose Senior
rosesenior
Jun 22, 2009 10:58 am
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...
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Pauline Johnson
paunjohnson
Jun 22, 2009 7:31 pm
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
chadfield@...
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...
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Pauline Johnson
paunjohnson
Jun 22, 2009 9:41 pm
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...
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archana jha
archanajha123
Jun 23, 2009 4:40 am
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
chadfield@...
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
julietdumont@...
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...
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Judy Garton-Sprenger
judith3166
Jun 24, 2009 6:41 pm
I¹ve been intrigued and fascinated by this recent exchange. I¹m particularly struck by the reported differences between what we as teachers think we¹re ...
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duncanfoord
Sep 25, 2009 1:19 pm
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?...
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Bill Templer
bill_templer
Sep 26, 2009 2:10 pm
 Duncan's question is good and there can be lots of narratives, case studies.  I teach literature pedagogy, transformed by the Internet (esp. youtube) in...
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Steve Graham
shed_chelsea
Sep 26, 2009 5:53 pm
Bill is right. Working in Thailand, I have seen for myself how the majority of rural classrooms are under equipped. I looked at Duncan's video and agree that...
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Pauline Johnson
paunjohnson
Sep 26, 2009 10:45 pm
How come you are all so knowlegable and have the privilege of having looked at Duncan's video? I have no idea how I might be able to look at Duncan's video. I...
