Searching the Cambridge CELTA syllabus for `culture', I discover the following. Unit 1 Learners and teachers and the teaching and learning context 1.1...
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Mark Bain
markcbain
Feb 4, 2011 3:13 pm
Hi Darren Would you mind if I republished your message on the official TDSIG blog? We can also spread the word via our Facebook page and Twitter feed. Regards ...
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Pauline Johnson
paunjohnson
Feb 4, 2011 5:58 pm
Dear Darren, Thinking back to the dim and distant past when I did the RSA Diploma in TEFLA, our trainer always talked of our students' "knowledge of the world"...
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Pauline Johnson
paunjohnson
Feb 4, 2011 6:08 pm
Dear Mark, I'm utterly amazed to see that members of this group are discussing an official TDSIG blog, plus a Facebook page and a Twitter feed. Why have I...
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Mark Bain
markcbain
Feb 4, 2011 6:17 pm
The blog, Facebook page and Twitter are free and open to all - you don't even have to be a member of the SIG or IATEFL for that matter. Here are the links: ...
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Adrian Tennant
adrian.tennant@...
Feb 4, 2011 6:34 pm
Pauline, NEST (Native English Speaking Teacher) as opposed to NNEST (non- native). Acronyms used by Medgyes Peter in a book he wrote back in the early 1990s. ...
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Karen Richardson
catmum39
Feb 4, 2011 6:51 pm
Dear Pauline, Further to Adrian's comments, I'd like to sympathise and offer a couple of more suggestions. Yes, you're right, the costs of attending an...
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Pauline Johnson
paunjohnson
Feb 4, 2011 7:10 pm
Dear Adrian, Thank you for your explanation of the acronym NEST - in my days it was native speaker versus non-native speaker. I'm not lying when I say that...
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Pauline Johnson
paunjohnson
Feb 4, 2011 7:30 pm
Dear Karen, I am so grateful for your sympathy. I absolutely love coming to the IATEFL conference and believe, like yourself, that it is THE conference to...
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Adrian Tennant
adrian.tennant@...
Feb 4, 2011 10:08 pm
Hi Pauline, Certainly, if I went to see my doctor and they told me the last training they'd done was 17 years ago and they didn't feel that it was necessary to...
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darren
darrenrelliott
Feb 4, 2011 10:12 pm
... Hi Mark - Please do! I appreciate your help. Darren...
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darren
darrenrelliott
Feb 7, 2011 2:45 am
I just wanted to respond to Pauline's original comments on the thread I started about cultural training for initial teacher trainees, and the direction it...
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darren
darrenrelliott
Feb 7, 2011 2:48 am
Searching the Cambridge CELTA syllabus for `culture', I discover the following. Unit 1 ELearners and teachers and the teaching and learning context ... ...
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McMorrow, Martin
stgilesteach...
Feb 7, 2011 3:40 am
Hi Darren, 'Culture' comes up in assessment criteria for the written assignments and teaching practice in Celta courses: Assignments: One of the four written...
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darren
darrenrelliott
Feb 7, 2011 6:09 am
Thanks Martin, a comprehensive response, and plenty of little nuggets to chew on. It's interesting that you mention many trainees in NZ do not have plans to...
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Duncan Foord
duncanfoord
Feb 7, 2011 4:48 pm
Hi Darren Our Trinity CertTESOL courses do not include specific input on culture. In Prague and Barcelona trainees are expected to develop sensitivity to the ...
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Karen Richardson
catmum39
Feb 7, 2011 6:21 pm
Hi Duncan, Your courses may not have specific cultural input, but in the same way as doing the cert in Prague is an enriching thrown-in-the-deep-end cultural...
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۞ Bill Templer
bill_templer
Feb 8, 2011 12:57 pm
I'd stress focus on getting teachers like us to study their own cultural attitudes, unquestioned assumptions. It's a life-long process. AUTOETHNOGRAPHY can...
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Mark Bain
markcbain
Feb 10, 2011 9:23 am
As a teacher trainer on the CertTESOL course in Barcelona, I can back up Karen's comments on the indirect cultural awareness raising that takes place on these...
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Juliet du Mont
julietdumont@...
Feb 10, 2011 5:27 pm
Hi All, I tend to agree with Duncans comment regarding the value of learning on the job and how this must relate to sensitivity to cultural issues. It is a...
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darren
darrenrelliott
Feb 17, 2011 1:41 am
Thanks everyone, for the thoughtful replies. Sorry I haven't been back to respond before now. A couple of interesting directions occur to me from reading your...
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Mark Bain
markcbain
Mar 6, 2011 7:52 am
Dear TDSIG members* I'd like to draw your attention to a couple of new features which I've recently introduced over at TDSIG.org. First of all, there's a...
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Pauline Johnson
paunjohnson
Mar 6, 2011 9:40 am
Dear Mark, Thanks for telling me about this new feature. I've just looked at your 'membership map' and seen that you have all of three members. I tried to add ...
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Mark Bain
markcbain
Mar 6, 2011 11:49 am
Hi Pauline Thanks for checking out the membership map - yes, I know, there are only a few people who've added their location, but I'm hoping more will follow....
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Mojca Belak
mojca.belak
Mar 6, 2011 12:39 pm
Dear Pauline Thank you for replying to Mark's post. I find what you wrote quite alarming - you say you've only received one newsletter from TD SIG since you've...
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Bill Templer
bill_templer
Mar 30, 2011 9:57 am
In some countries, ex-pat teachers, esp. from the core English L1 countries, get substantially higher pay for the same job. Is this fair? Below a recent ...
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Anthony Gaughan
anthonygaugh...
Mar 30, 2011 5:27 pm
I think the short answer to all the questions you pose is "no". I find it very hard to imagine a sense in which this is fair. Anthony ... I think the short...
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Mark Bain
markcbain
Mar 30, 2011 5:38 pm
And the flippant answer is "no, but life's not fair". If I may play devil's advocate (in an attempt to get a bit of a discussion going - you up for it, ...
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Anthony Gaughan
anthonygaugh...
Mar 30, 2011 6:32 pm
OK, Mark: I'll bite ;-) Let's take this one proposition at a time, shall we? 1) "Life's not fair" Well-spotted, and it is precisely for this reason that...
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Anthony Gaughan
anthonygaugh...
Mar 30, 2011 6:35 pm
A correction! When I say "but he was struck that a company or institution he was visiting had no non-native teachers on staff", I meant "native speaker...
