Hi Kathy, How about this wacky idea?: a modified version of John's And then game. You give the students a relatively short dictation of maybe three...
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Jeff Bragg
chalkfacehero
Oct 4, 2008 8:56 am
Just off the top of my head (and without much experience of teaching Chinese students, I might add, and little understanding of their problems in general and...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Oct 4, 2008 9:09 am
I've totally null knowledge of teaching Chinese, but I used to enjoy teaching German students to write, greatly. I found a vital step one was to get them...
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John N. Q. Warner
johncrwarner
Oct 4, 2008 9:32 am
Thanks for this Dennis. I think that Germans are very reluctant to relax and speak from the personal position. I love using postcards picture stimulus and...
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cg.roland
Oct 4, 2008 9:49 pm
I've been hiring all the D95 (or related) films that I can find in our local video store. For those that haven't seen L.V. Triers above titled film, there's an...
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Robert Haines
romiha1
Oct 5, 2008 3:22 am
Dear Craig, Click here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Stevens to read about Wallace Stevens' thoughts on imagination and reality. You might find it...
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nickbilbrough
Oct 5, 2008 10:12 am
Chris, Thanks for your very interesting post. By a strange coincidence I have also just seen 'the boss of it all' What struck me about it, and where I see the...
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nickbilbrough
Oct 5, 2008 10:38 am
Chris, I think you have hit the nail on the head with emphasising the importance of imagination, but don't see how you can argue that imagination is imported....
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mercadopezrojo
Oct 5, 2008 12:44 pm
Hi: Has anybody in this group ever worked with SIA (Van Patten, et al)? And if yes, at which stage of the course/lesson? and what role are such activities...
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Robert Haines
romiha1
Oct 5, 2008 9:09 pm
Sorry, Chris for typing Craig instead of your name. I meant you. :-) Rob...
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cg.roland
Oct 6, 2008 2:20 pm
Nick It is a great film yeah? I see what you're saying, and I was probably chuntering away beyond practical levels of abstraction. And I think, perhaps, that...
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cg.roland
Oct 6, 2008 2:27 pm
Rob That's a great link - I might never have come across him without a nudging - and one which will keep me quiet for the next couple of days. Cheers Chris...
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Robert Haines
romiha1
Oct 6, 2008 3:07 pm
... I certainly didn't send you the link to keep you from posting, Chris. I've enjoyed reading what list members outside the usual circle of posters have had...
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Robert Haines
romiha1
Oct 8, 2008 4:54 am
What would a dogme Latin class be like? :-) http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/nyregion/07latin.html?_r=1&em&oref=slogin Rob...
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mike_corea
Oct 8, 2008 2:05 pm
In my current working situation the students are here for an intensive 20 weeks and we change teachers at the halfway point. Tomorrow is my final class with a...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Oct 8, 2008 3:27 pm
Mike. You wrote: " She said that they would just talk about the same thing every time and that they needed to be guided." I guess the only effective way of...
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cg.roland
Oct 8, 2008 8:16 pm
Mike I agree with Dennis there. By 'input' does your friend mean telling the students what to talk about, or telling them what words to use? (probably the...
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Robert Haines
romiha1
Oct 8, 2008 10:13 pm
And, Mike, you might mention to your colleague the importance of motivation. As Dennis once wrote to this list (I believe), we love to talk about ourselves,...
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diarmuid_fogarty
diarmuid_fog...
Oct 9, 2008 5:27 am
... Mike These classes you describe are very similar to the classes that I often teach - the only difference being that mine sometimes extend (considerably)...
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diarmuid_fogarty
diarmuid_fog...
Oct 9, 2008 5:29 am
... "It's the language of people who are successful. I think it's a draw, and that's certainly what we sell." [vomits]...
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diarmuid_fogarty
diarmuid_fog...
Oct 9, 2008 5:33 am
Kathy I labour under the misapprehension that there are four things that your students may need 1. lots of things to read; 2. lots of opportunity to write; 3....
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John N. Q. Warner
johncrwarner
Oct 9, 2008 6:28 am
... LOL, when I worked in a UK secondary school and taught mathematics - I had some nice middle class parents come in on parents evening and they "complained"...
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Rita Baker
lydbury85
Oct 9, 2008 2:18 pm
Somehow demonstrate that the 'proof of the pudding is in the eating'! The trouble is that students tend to live up to teachers' expectations, for better or for...
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Rita Baker
lydbury85
Oct 9, 2008 3:23 pm
Chris, I think you've hit the nail on the head when you say 'That could even be scary for some teachers ...' I'm convinced that the biggest barrier to ...
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mike_corea
Oct 9, 2008 3:35 pm
Hello Dogme-ers, Sorry this post is pretty long...I actually wrote the bottom part for another purpose and thought it might add some interest to the discussion...
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mike_corea
Oct 9, 2008 3:55 pm
Rita, I was just about to comment on what Chris wrote about the fear of losing control for some teachers. I have recently been placed in charge of helping new...
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mike_corea
Oct 9, 2008 4:00 pm
So just after my looong post I picked up a new book that I found at a used bookstore in Seoul and starting flipping through "Speaking in Many Tongues" by Wilga...
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scott_thornbury
Oct 9, 2008 5:01 pm
... Mike's discovering Wilga Rivers reminded me that I have a copy of her Teaching Foreign Language Skills (2nd edn 1981) that has been unopened since I bought...
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Rita Baker
lydbury85
Oct 10, 2008 1:29 pm
Fright'nin init! We can learn a lot from young children. Their environment might be structured, but the language 'input' isn't. They just sort it out for...
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mercadopezrojo
Oct 10, 2008 3:04 pm
I canīt understand this insistence in comparing first language acquisition by young children to second language acquisition by adolescents and adults. A fish...
