Things have been a bit quiet for a while - so I thought I'd post something I have been working on - it is the last paragraph of the last chapter of a book I...
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Luke Meddings
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May 4, 2000 4:58 pm
Dear All Don't open an e-mail titled 'I love you' reading 'Kindly check the attached letter coming from me.' It is a virus and features on the front page of...
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Richard Bradford
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May 5, 2000 10:22 am
Hi Scott, Just read your `book piece` and yes, I agree with your concept that they will `pick up` the grammar by using the language - it`s pretty much in line ...
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kevesp10@...
May 5, 2000 2:15 pm
About three months ago I was about to start a class with a group of twelve fifteen year olds here in Barcelona. For the previous four months we had been...
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David French
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May 8, 2000 7:34 am
... That's the proof. May I ask who contributed this? David...
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David French
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May 8, 2000 8:58 am
I went to a session on CLL on Saturday and experienced recording a dialogue in Spanish as a learner. I don't know any Spanish beyond a few words so it was an...
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G Hall
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May 8, 2000 11:18 am
Following from David's comments - ... written down - as some of the students in my classes have said. This year I have tried to re-acquaint myself with being...
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Richard Bradford
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May 8, 2000 3:02 pm
Dear Scott, Just a quick note for you, rather than dogme: are you still a teacher trainer and if so do you have any CELTA or DELTA places left for the summer, ...
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David French
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May 9, 2000 8:32 am
Straight from Amazon Could this be of interest? Curriculum As Conversation : Transforming Traditions of Teaching and Learning by Arthur N. Applebee List Price:...
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kevesp10@...
May 9, 2000 6:34 pm
Thanks for the comment from David French. Since the lesson described in that story we have done three more classes consisting of everyone sitting in a circle...
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sthornbury@...
May 9, 2000 6:46 pm
Kevin - for I am sure it is you - I liked this story so much I felt it would stand alone as a fitting response to the nay-sayers - has anyone else seen the...
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sthornbury@...
May 9, 2000 6:46 pm
Curiously I have that book (Curriculum as Conversation) as I too spotted it on Amazon. But I am ashamed to say i still haven't read it. I was a bit put off by...
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sthornbury@...
May 9, 2000 6:49 pm
A student wrote this in his journal, kept during a teacher training course here (IH Barcelona); "I enjoy more when a teacher sits down in front of us and...
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G Hall
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May 10, 2000 10:40 am
I haven't seen the latests IATEFL Issues yet, but the critique of Dogme as being dogmatic seems to be very similar to most past critiques of Critical Pedagogy....
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David French
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May 10, 2000 1:35 pm
... I think that this is an area worth discussing. A lot of our input when learning a new language comes through the aural channel. There doesn't seem much...
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David French
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May 10, 2000 1:51 pm
When we finally get our hands on the article I trust we'll be able to look through the fancy arguing and precisely identify the point where we diverge or ...
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David French
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May 10, 2000 1:54 pm
Just remind me what someone has to do to join this list and receive messages. David...
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sthornbury@...
May 11, 2000 10:02 am
To subscribe: got to http://www.egroups.com/group/dogme/info.html and click on SUBSCRIBE in the menu on the left. Then follow the instructions....
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David French
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May 11, 2000 12:48 pm
informal education website at http://www.infed.org/ worth a look, I'd say. David...
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Luke Meddings
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May 11, 2000 1:09 pm
Thanks David, it is well worth a look. *********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********...
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David French
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May 11, 2000 1:21 pm
The book was published by Education Now books. I subscribe to their newsletter and am probably going to write an article about language learning for them. ...
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David French
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May 16, 2000 8:28 am
After having a look at the informal education website and starting to think about writing a contribution about language learning I realised that what we've ...
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David French
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May 16, 2000 9:17 am
the conversation class I have once a week with teenagers (16-18 years old) continues to be a rich forum for observations about how a group evolves. It also ...
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sthornbury@...
May 16, 2000 12:14 pm
David's account of hius conversation class reminded me of an article that appeared in TESOL Quarterly in 94: Gisela Ernst writing about "talking circles": "The...
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Richard Bradford
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May 16, 2000 2:57 pm
The Task of Learning Hi Everyone, Faced with pangs of guilt for not writing for a while, I though I'd share some of the refinements that I've been making...
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sthornbury@...
May 16, 2000 5:30 pm
Here's what I'm sending to IATEFL Issues in response to the anti- Dogme letters. Any thoughts? Scott The following section of this message contains a file...
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G Hall
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May 17, 2000 1:23 pm
Hi, There have been 130 or so messages now, with so many ideas, comments examples that its' pretty hard (for me at least)to keep track of it all. However,...
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sthornbury@...
May 18, 2000 10:36 am
In response to Graham's posting - the need to take stock, distill, synthesise - this is a recurring theme. In keeping with the "emergent"; philosophy underlying...
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David French
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May 18, 2000 12:36 pm
Fascinating stuff. Why apologise? In Polish they would say 'rozpisałe¶ się'. You wrote-yourself-out. You got it all down. It's great when someone puts a new...
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G Hall
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May 18, 2000 1:30 pm
Hi, Re. Scott's message, I think some kind of shaping/publication would be a good idea. It would be a tricky task not to lose both the sense of variety of ...
