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13085
Hmm... yes, to all. I guess perhaps the question could be instead: Do teachers believe themselves to be credible regarding the process of instructing students...
Karenne Sylvester
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Dec 2, 2008
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13086
Dear all, I need some help... Trying to do my DELTA, looking for something out of the ordinary to help inspire teens and adults to write better narrative ...
paul_s_east
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Dec 2, 2008
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I don't see the value in teachers asking themselves whether or not they are credible. It seems to me that the people who are best fit to judge are their...
diarmuid_fogarty
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Dec 2, 2008
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I do see the value in asking oneself all types of questions. This is very important to be able to question oneself. Teaching is interacting, interacting and...
Marianne Dorléac
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Dec 2, 2008
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sorry, please read : "you cannot avoid to realise that you are evaluated as a teacher"instead of the messy sentence I wrote. ... De: Marianne Dorléac...
Marianne Dorléac
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13090
Marianne Very tasty. That's interesting. Especially the two-way direction of credibility you mention. At some point, especially when we start thinking about ...
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13091
Paul You may or may not go for this. 1. On 12 pieces of A4 (one for each student) put the opening sentence to a story. Typical FCE stuff. Make them all...
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13092
Marianne, That's the trouble with the internet, one quick click and then "oh crap did I really write that?!" Yikes! Happens to me all the time! ;-)Karenne ......
Karenne Sylvester
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Hi Chris, Thanks for that, it all sounds good to me. If there's ever anything I can help you with, just ask. BW Paul ________________________________ From:...
paul east
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Karenne, For what it is worth I'd think that it is not essential that foreign language teachers have learned a language, though it is clearly a great ...
Dennis Newson
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Dec 2, 2008
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13095
HEY Paul this activity is *great* !! I find it great because it's not only about writing, but also, in the *same* class, discussing, agreeing to critiria,...
Marianne Dorléac
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Dec 2, 2008
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Yes Karenne ! and this time it was all the more enfuriating as the post was about just this : how can you teach a language if you haven't successfully learnt...
Marianne Dorléac
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I agree about the qualities mentioned by Dennis but I don't agree about putting one higher that another. They are all great essential qualities to me, they all...
Marianne Dorléac
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Chris,   First I would like to say that I thanked Paul for an activity (the writing/discussing /reformulating activity) you created yourself! my mistake!   ...
Marianne Dorléac
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Dec 2, 2008
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Marianne, Paul, pleased you chaps liked that. Can't really claim credit for that though - sort of gleaned it from the Ih Barcelona teacher trainer crew (Neil,...
cg.roland
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Chris,   The whole process you are going through, perfecting your Spanish, must be so valuable to you as a language teacher! You will be attentive to...
Marianne Dorléac
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Hi all, Diarmuid said about students being the only people who can decide if the teacher is credible! I just can't agree with this. Take this situation, for...
Adrian Tennant
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13102
If I'm not mistaken, Scott, in his book Teaching Vocabulary, writes something along the lines of: flash cards are an effective technique for learning...
Robert Haines
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Dec 3, 2008
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13103
"deference to our kiwi progenitor"!! hey Scott is not a Guru, there is no need to quote him like the bible, and I'm sure he would accept that some of us agree...
Marianne Dorléac
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We may be talking about different things. Flashcards I take to be visual aids (either words or pictures) that you "flash" to students in class. The word card...
Scott Thornbury
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Dec 3, 2008
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Scott quotes Nation on how to learn vocabulary: "d.. Use first language translations (Research shows... that learning is generally better if the meaning is...
Dennis Newson
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Dec 3, 2008
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I second that emotion! I love this story-writing activity; in fact, I may use it this Saturday with my class of 8 upper-beginner level students at a local...
Roger E. Jones
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Dec 3, 2008
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... learning is ... language.) ... Yes, I had a feeling this one would bring Dennis out in a rash. ;-) Here's what Nation says: "Research shows (Lado, Baldwin...
scott_thornbury
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Dec 3, 2008
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13108
Oh well........ But Nation does assume mono lingual classes, doesn't he? You'd need big cards and a lot of expertise if you had learners from 7 nationalities...
Dennis Newson
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Dec 3, 2008
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Hello Scott, I put my comments in yellow down bellow!   Marianne ... De: Scott Thornbury <scott.thornbury@...> Objet: [dogme] Flash cards or word cards ...
Marianne Dorléac
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NO dennis I don't I don't !!! AHHHHHA ! MERCI for saying this!   why translate ? and how ?? why meaning do you choose from the many meaning a word can...
Marianne Dorléac
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13111
Question: who amongst us has tried this for themselves and found it to work? (Not our students, us). I tried it. I can show you pictures. ;-) I took the...
Karenne Sylvester
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Dec 3, 2008
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13112
Marianne wrote: "one of my students was a clasical music fan, he wanted to know all the words related to it, words I myself very seldom use! but who am I to...
Scott Thornbury
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Dec 3, 2008
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... he? ... 7 ... No Dennis, Nation does not assume monolingual classes. He assumes bilingual learners. You misunderstand the technique: The word card ...
scott_thornbury
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... De: scott_thornbury <scott.thornbury@...> Objet: [dogme] Re: Flash cards or word cards À: dogme@yahoogroups.com Date: Mercredi 3 Décembre 2008,...
Marianne Dorléac
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