Alan, Thanks very much indeed for the Alison Phipps reference. Keeping abreast of developments is so difficult and often one does it by chance. Dennis -- ...
10925
Robert Haines
romiha1
May 2, 2007 12:04 am
A variation on the 3-2-1- activity that Sue recently wrote about: Yesterday the students talked about potential problems they might have when they move into...
10926
Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
May 2, 2007 12:09 pm
Rob, Very interesting, not least because I used to do something very similar but different with my students. As this list knows, they were German university...
10927
Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
May 2, 2007 3:48 pm
My last posting about getting students to draw up house rules in groups for sharing a flat has brought back related pedagogical memories. I'd been prompted...
10928
Robert Haines
romiha1
May 2, 2007 4:30 pm
Dennis, your last two posts have been most interesting to read. Why not compose your memoirs s a blog? Perhaps you've already done that. You asked about the...
10929
Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
May 2, 2007 5:57 pm
Rob and list, I wonder if I have quoted before what one student wrote to me on an end-of-term questionnaire? "Dennis. When you say: "Before we begin", we've...
10930
Robert Haines
romiha1
May 3, 2007 3:57 am
This is an excerpt from message #19 of the list, in which Scott quotes Earl Stevick describing one of his favorite activities. It's very similar to the 3-2-1...
10931
Robert Haines
romiha1
May 4, 2007 5:22 pm
Last night I watched an interview with German pop star Nena (99 Red Balloons) at http://www.daserste.de/beckmann/ ...
10932
Robert Haines
romiha1
May 4, 2007 5:30 pm
It should be added that the "new" school is receiving special attention because Nena, a German pop star, has her name attached to it. The model upon which it...
10933
Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
May 5, 2007 10:44 am
A couple of weeks after IATEFL's Aberdeen online conference, here comes the next great free offer. Dennis ... From: Vance Stevens <vstevens@...> Date:...
10934
balfour_nigel
May 7, 2007 11:00 am
Hello everyone. Something I came across in my reading recently- & of possible interest to Dogmetists. In 'An Autobiography or The Story of my experiments with...
10935
Scott Thornbury
scott_thornbury
May 7, 2007 1:08 pm
On the subject of making connections with other reforming movements, this architectural school in the US seems to have a "dogme" philosophy. They specialise in...
10936
vikirme
May 8, 2007 4:57 am
Hi, guys! I've recently discovered Dogme and I'll give a short presentation on it to other teachers in a course this Friday. I chose Thornbury's "A Dogma for...
10937
Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
May 8, 2007 5:21 am
Viviane, This is what Scott has to say about dogme in his new book: An A-Z of ELT, Macmillan, 2006, ISBN 1 4050 7063 3 ... Dogme ELT METHODOLOGY Dogme ELT is...
10938
Diarmuid Fogarty
diarmuid_fog...
May 8, 2007 5:36 am
Hi Viviane Dogme continues to defy attempts to pin it down and come out with a clear cut definition, leading many to conclude that it is more smoke than...
10939
Jeff Bragg
chalkfacehero
May 8, 2007 5:58 am
What IS dogme? I'd call it "a materials-light approach to teaching and learning". Any help? Jeff Diarmuid Fogarty <diarmuid@...> wrote: Hi Viviane ...
10940
melinda
melindasolty...
May 8, 2007 1:33 pm
In reading Viviane´s call for comments, I thought it would be a good idea also to hear what everyone on the group sees dogme as, especially understanding that...
10941
Peter Thwaites
diamond_fingerz
May 8, 2007 2:18 pm
Taking up Viviane and then Melinda's calls for ideas, here's what dogme is for me. I think initially dogme meant the same thing to me as it does to many...
10942
Robert Haines
romiha1
May 8, 2007 3:15 pm
Let me just jump on the bandwagon to say that I've come to view dogme as a social construct that is greater than the sum of its parts. Although Scott it...
10943
Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
May 8, 2007 3:59 pm
Peter, You illustrate what Rob suggests - you have taken your idea of Dogme and developed into something very personal, humane and rather touching: "The real...
10944
luke
luke@...
May 9, 2007 9:41 am
I agree with Dennis - a great posting, Peter, and the following quote is also worthy of note: The key to using a dogmetic approach for me is firstly...
10945
Peter Thwaites
diamond_fingerz
May 9, 2007 11:30 am
Luke, and list, You wrote: "I think nurture/development is applicable in all environments, from child to adult, large group to 1-1". This touched on a point...
10946
luke
luke@...
May 9, 2007 11:49 am
Peter, my thought was more nurture and development as it applies to language learning, so I may have misread your original thought (but not to worry as this is...
10947
Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
May 9, 2007 11:56 am
Peter, a very thought-provoking message. As you know, there is no Book of Dogme, but I would have thought that the generally agreed aim to teach what the...
10948
luke
luke@...
May 9, 2007 12:30 pm
Yes - speculating is the word; not pontificating. (Dennis - 'I've always assumed that the subject of English, one of the humanities, was essentially about life...
10949
diarmuid_fogarty
diarmuid_fog...
May 9, 2007 12:56 pm
Hi Peter You ask whether it would be presumptuous to advise people on how to lead their lives. I wonder whether that extends to giving people advice on how to...
10950
luke
luke@...
May 9, 2007 2:26 pm
Diarmiud, I'm interested by 'What I try to do is to make them aware of other ways of thinking and accept that these other ways also have a degree of ...
10951
Robert Haines
romiha1
May 9, 2007 3:23 pm
Life lessons are learned, not taught. The minute we step into the classroom (or wherever, Fiona), the teaching begins through the semiosis of our body...
10952
Diarmuid Fogarty
diarmuid_fog...
May 9, 2007 7:34 pm
Luke A person of my bulk and stature shouldn't be making any big leaps at all, so I hope that you'll understand that I was typing in haste in a noisy staffroom...
10953
Jeff Bragg
chalkfacehero
May 10, 2007 10:14 am
Dogme in Haiku Well it¡¯s the weekend (over here anyway), so time for a little light-heartedness. Here¡¯s my contribution to the dogme-haiku (or should...
