I have a young colleague, an earnest, decent man and an excellent teacher, heading to Korea. Can anyone working in Korea or knowing it well, offer to...
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Sue Ali
susnamali
Jan 4, 2002 12:03 am
Hi, I've been receiving emails from the dogme group for some time because an enthusiastic colleague added me to the list. I never thought I would send an email...
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Ruth
rwajnryb@...
Jan 4, 2002 9:49 pm
forgive the pest again, bu cld someone tell me how to access the records of the dogme group? thnks, ruth ... From: <dogme@yahoogroups.com> To:...
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Diarmuid Fogarty
diarmuid_fog...
Jan 4, 2002 10:47 pm
Ruth You can either go to the website (www.teaching-unplugged.com and click on the link to the list archives or you can go direct to ...
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sthornbury@...
scott_thornbury
Jan 5, 2002 8:42 am
I've just seen the latest dogme film, (and the first, incidentally, to be directed by a woman): Italian for beginners. In the words of a friend who recommended...
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scott_thornbury
Jan 5, 2002 8:50 am
Thanks, Diarmuid, for helping Ruth out. It's worth noting that the SEARCH option on the egroups site works well and quickly, so if you're looking (as I was the...
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Sue Murray
suemurrayit
Jan 5, 2002 7:14 pm
LOTS of interesting postings I want to join in on - but rather slow and rusty after almost 3 weeks off-line; meanwhile, out of interest, here's an extract (3...
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Ruth
rwajnryb@...
Jan 5, 2002 10:05 pm
thanku thank u thank u ruth ... From: <dogme@yahoogroups.com> To: <dogme@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 4:48 AM Subject: [dogme] Digest Number...
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Sue Murray
suemurrayit
Jan 6, 2002 9:43 pm
Re Dennis's questions (below), a few (probably obvious) ideas. 1. How would you convince students that learning grammar rules and filling up their vocabulary...
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Sue Murray
suemurrayit
Jan 6, 2002 9:43 pm
I've been asked to give a session on using video. This is something I've done many times in the past in various ways, but I've never found any truly dogme...
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Sue Murray
suemurrayit
Jan 6, 2002 9:43 pm
dear dk, there's a lot to think about in your reply and wholelanguage cross posting. And thanks. (Though I don't know what you'd think about one lesson I had...
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Sue Murray
suemurrayit
Jan 6, 2002 9:43 pm
Sue, your posting is wildly interesting, though I need more time to properly read and digest it. I think student feedback - especially when it's clearly...
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Diarmuid Fogarty
diarmuid_fog...
Jan 6, 2002 10:58 pm
In reponse to Sue Ali: I agree with your take on students coming late to class. I encourage my latecomers to come up with very original stories. We haven't yet...
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James Farmer
jamesnfarmer
Jan 7, 2002 2:20 am
... English who ... I think Roy Terry in "Does Standard Grading Encourage Excessive Competitiveness' puts it rather well: "Grades are the play money in a...
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Diarmuid Fogarty
diarmuid_fog...
Jan 7, 2002 6:44 am
James asked "But... can we afford not to tokenise? If I am DOGME in my academic prep. classes, am I doing my students an injustice? Isn't this tokenisation...
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Tom Walton
tomdoliveira
Jan 7, 2002 8:11 am
Surely the only dogme-way to use video in the classroom would be to video a "dogme class" - and no lights, no props, no scripting, no editing...! PC Smasher ...
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Sue Murray
suemurrayit
Jan 7, 2002 10:11 pm
Sorry, just one (over)simple and transverse thought on Dennis' (and others, I recall?) question about how to convince students who believe that learning rules...
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Sue Murray
suemurrayit
Jan 7, 2002 10:13 pm
Thanks, Diarmuid and Tom. Tom, as soon as we get a video camera (wishful thinking ...), we'll be doing just that! (Perhaps WITH the lights, as we'll all be...
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scott_thornbury
Jan 8, 2002 9:29 am
In the Sylvia Branzei interview (in Sue's Grossology posting - 1141) the interviewer says: Q: It's hard to imagine teaching without textbooks. A lot of dogme's...
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sthornbury@...
scott_thornbury
Jan 8, 2002 10:17 pm
Found today on an EFL website: this description of a game: "Cindy is trapped in a nightmare world. Only your knowledge of verb tenses can help her chase the...
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Jane Arnold
arnold@...
Jan 8, 2002 11:30 pm
Before the Christmas break, I had asked a vague question about opinions relating to resources books. Actually, I had a purpose in doing so but wanted to get...
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lifang67
Jan 9, 2002 1:21 am
Dear Jane: This is a hard idea to sell, I'm afraid. But you asked for it! Resource books can be just as disempowering as coursebooks, in the same way that...
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Dennis
dnewson2001
Jan 9, 2002 6:11 am
DK writes, "Any teacher worth his/her salt knows that the second method of explanation works" (using largely referential language). What is being explained...
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Tom Walton
tomdoliveira
Jan 9, 2002 8:17 am
Hi. Not sure that this really answers your question, Jane, but anyway... The kind of resource book I would like to see would contain about 50-60 photocopiable...
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sthornbury@...
scott_thornbury
Jan 9, 2002 8:35 am
Dennis, there is no mystery. They learn by doing. They may first study the system in some abstract way and then put it to use, or they may simply pick it up...
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Diarmuid Fogarty
diarmuid_fog...
Jan 9, 2002 11:14 am
I feel I should respond, even if I don't have anything to say! I've never been a big fan of resource books. Not for any other reason than I've never found them...
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scott_thornbury
Jan 10, 2002 11:55 am
I want to do a workshop at a forthcoming conference for teacher trainers on "Dogme training", (or Training unplugged?) to include ideas for technology-free,...
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Diarmuid Fogarty
diarmuid_fog...
Jan 10, 2002 6:32 pm
Scott I did a workshop at college recently in order to promote a dogme-style way of teaching. There were handouts which were incorporated into the activities ...
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F. Mortes
mortes2000
Jan 10, 2002 6:32 pm
Scott, A loop-input format springs to mind as perhaps a good choice, given the nature of Dogme (i.e. you've got to see it to believe it, or in other words,...
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Diarmuid Fogarty
diarmuid_fog...
Jan 10, 2002 6:34 pm
I've just started back as a student. This unit is all about assessment. Any thoughts on the function, form and fairness of it? [Non-text portions of this...
