SCOTT THORNBURY Dave Wills wrote (in 1994): "In helping learners manage their insights into the target language we should be conscious that our starting point...
What would be extraordinarily helpful and interesting would be a transcript of a lesson of emergent grammar teaching a la Scott. Can anyone on the list refer...
Dennis Newson
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Jan 2, 2003 6:25 am
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Dennis said: "isn't it more helpful and practical to work out how to teach, learn, teacher train, educate, develop in hostile circumstances?" I thought we...
Hi, for those of you who have access to the educanarias page (Bridging the Gaps), Jennifer is doing a chat this evening at 20.00 G.M.T. For the really...
... items that are not relevant to the children. Essential classroom management language is not given the priority or time it needs, and should be an integral...
Adrian Tennant
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Jan 4, 2003 10:37 am
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thanks Adrian yes, have used the p/copiable materials so much from the forementioned article, that I asked permission from Heinemann to reproduce it in the...
I'll be joining you just after 9pm as I'm tied up until then. Adrian ... From: <jadjmd@...> To: <TEAvirtual@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, January 04,...
Adrian Tennant
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Jan 4, 2003 7:46 pm
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(resent from Brian Perkins - your wish is.........) Hello, Sorry I haven't been actively participating recently, but I've been overwhelmed by my studies and...
Tony Harris and LOGSE: "The English part of the LOGSE was not successful because context was not fully taken into account. CLT ideology looked good in the...
I don't actually know what LOGSE is (or Kings for that matter) but I recognise a conflict that probably exists worldwide - between teachers at the coal-face...
Just to remind you that I'll be chatting live ( EduCanarias; Foros ) tomorrow, 8pm Canarias time, on the contents of my online paper. ( And on anything else...
DIARMUID FOGARTY ENGLISH teacher or TEACHER of English. When we walk into the classroom, how do we see ourselves? Are we educators or linguists? Do we know...
As usual Diarmuid has made a good point, but I wonder how much of this rings true for all our State School colleagues. Often EFL native speakers and non-native...
Adrian Tennant
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Jan 10, 2003 8:50 am
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Hello everyone!! I have been in Spain for a short time therefore I don´t know much about the ins and outs of native/non-native teachers and the teaching that...
Testing does not need to be different from teaching. When you tell students that tomorrow there'll be a test, how many groan? When you tell them tomorrow will...
Hello there, everyone has gone quiet! Perhaps it's the cold. Just a couple of things, really. Firstly to say that I've really enjoyed the last few chats I've...
Diarmuid asks: "How would EFL change if our professional qualifications focussed more on the teaching and less on the linguistics? Why don't they do that...
Words of wisdom from Adrian. Surely the main problem with testing, though, and why it get put into a separate compartment from teaching, is that, most of the...
I think Adrian really got a point. I mean, testing might be the real problem for a lot of schools. I completely agree that most (80%?) teachers work out all...
Hi, just to remind those of you who are taking part in the on-line conference that there are chats this week: tonight, Monday 13th, at 8p.m.GMT with Jesús...
Luke Prodromou: 'English language teaching has broken away from its roots in education, if it were ever in touch with them. For most people, teachers,...
Teaching is just a job for many? Maybe, but it needs ideas to keep it going or it becomes a chore - or a memory. And many of the best ideas come from other...
Luke writes: "The business of education has been taken over by education as a business. It's why exams are so dominant and tend to drive teaching, rather than...
SID - Share an idea day - sounds an excellent ..... idea. Dennis-- Dennis Newson (retired) formerly at the University of Osnabrueck, Germany List Manager...
Whilst I definitely agree with the spirit of Luke's posting, I would take (small) issue with a couple of things. Firstly, EFL *is* a job. It is something that...
I appreciate that it is difficult to change things from an exam-oriented education to a learning and liberating model but I take comfort from the awareness of...
I was very interested, of course, in what other contributors thought could be done in the struggle between educators and others and posed only a question....
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