Scott wrote that coursebooks are called "methods" in some countries. That word is insightful, because what is a coursebook but a syllabus with a method?...
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Diarmuid
diarmuid_fog...
Mar 2, 2002 9:02 am
Julian asks what the relationship between Dogme and method is. I think it's been discussed somewhere before (or at least referred to) but I'm not sure how the...
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scott_thornbury
Mar 2, 2002 6:49 pm
Is dogme a method? No, not in the sense that it prescribes a closed set of procedures that derive from a specific theory of learning and/or of language, as in...
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Sue Murray
suemurrayit
Mar 2, 2002 9:53 pm
came across this by chance, and it 'echoed' a bit (from an interview with Peter Brook, theatre director; afraid I know little about him beyond the name) "If...
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Richard Samson
rmisw
Mar 3, 2002 12:05 am
Julian writes ... I respond to this merely because I interpreted Scott's comments quite differently. It could be as you say, Julian, that the textbook was the ...
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adrian.tennant
adriantennant
Mar 3, 2002 1:34 am
Until you've had it, you can't lose it! Dr Evil...
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Tom Topham
tom_topham
Mar 3, 2002 5:35 am
... This has been my sneaking feeling about dogme since coming here. I agree with a lot of the ideas here, and find that in a lot of ways I was already a ...
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scott_thornbury
Mar 3, 2002 9:33 am
Richard's scenario (the german class without the "german" teacher) might draw on CLL techniques - learners jointly constructing and recording a conversation...
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Diarmuid
diarmuid_fog...
Mar 3, 2002 10:24 am
Tom wrote: They aren't ready to dogmize, because Dogme is a reaction to something they haven't lived through. I feel uncomfortable when I hear anybody saying...
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adrian.tennant
adriantennant
Mar 3, 2002 1:38 pm
I guess I've been thrown into a SIMLAR situation. On one of my recent trips to Uzbekistan I was asked by the Ministry of Education if I could do a training...
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foxdenuk
Mar 3, 2002 4:58 pm
Firstly I should introduce myself as a new member of a few weeks who has been enjoying the new perspectives evident in this group. I work in a rather...
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Dennis
dnewson2001
Mar 3, 2002 6:43 pm
Hang on a minute........ Julian writes: "Imagine for example this situation. It is a monolingual group of, say, English mother tongue students. You have to...
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Richard Samson
rmisw
Mar 6, 2002 4:54 am
In answer to "Puzzled of north Germany" "Imagine for example this situation. It is a monolingual group of, say, English mother tongue students. You have to...
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Dennis
dnewson2001
Mar 7, 2002 11:59 am
Richard, I can see that a native-English speaker with no German filling in for an absent colleague's German lesson could do a range of things to activate the...
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scott_thornbury
Mar 7, 2002 2:57 pm
Dennis wrote ... would, ... teacher/learner ... Of course neither Richard nor I are suggesting that this is an "ideal" situation, but simply that it is...
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scott_thornbury
Mar 7, 2002 5:39 pm
An occasional series. From today's BBC Online News: A digital whiteboard that costs a fraction of many on the market could be the answer to interactivity in...
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Eric Baber
ericbaber
Mar 7, 2002 5:58 pm
Subject: [dogme] Luddites' corner ... <Snip> ... I'll remind you of that when you give your distance-presentation to the IATEFL York conference all the way...
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Andy McNish
andy_mcmlxv
Mar 8, 2002 2:14 am
As one who voted unequivocally for the proposition that dogme is 'winging it elevated to an art form' (and all the better for it, I might add), I find myself...
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scott_thornbury
Mar 8, 2002 10:48 am
Purposefully ignoring cheeky comments from Eric and Andy, can I just point out that the dogme site is now 2 years old - having generated nearly 1500 postings,...
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Tom Walton
tomdoliveira
Mar 8, 2002 10:57 am
Yes, Scott, we would have to accept that "dogme", as a group, exists thanks at least partly to the technology. A question that has been in the back of my mind...
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Eric Baber
ericbaber
Mar 8, 2002 10:58 am
... Tsk tsk, all that text debating about whether or not to use texts in the classroom.... ;-) Cheekiness aside, Happy Birthday, dogme!! Scott, any words of...
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Eric Baber
ericbaber
Mar 8, 2002 11:13 am
... It seems to me that this is already happening. Vance Stevens and a number of colleagues/friends have been running an endeavour called "Webheads"; for a ...
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Vance Stevens
vstevens@...
Mar 8, 2002 11:31 am
Thanks for the plug, Eric. I just attempted to join the dogme Yahoo group and 'activate my membership' at the website. Webheads meets and has met Sunday noon...
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kellogg
lifang67
Mar 11, 2002 7:32 am
I remember at a conference in the late 1980s, Michael Swan told this anecdote about walking into a confiserie in Calais and asking for "de la confiture sans...
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Julian Bamford
julian12jp
Mar 12, 2002 2:04 am
Thanks dk for the valuable ruminations on memory. In lieu of a killer anecdote ("Michael Swan walks into a confiserie in Calais" Love it!) I'll just...
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adrian.tennant
adriantennant
Mar 12, 2002 6:55 am
I think there is another layer, or type, of memory at work in language learning. A 'deep' memory similar to instinct. Last year I started learning sign...
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Dennis
dnewson2001
Mar 12, 2002 6:59 am
A question arising from dk and Julian on memory (in language learning). If there is an area where systematic research may have come up with findings that might...
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Julian Bamford
julian12jp
Mar 12, 2002 9:21 am
Dr. E writes: I think there is another layer, or type, of memory at work in language learning. A 'deep' memory similar to instinct. I've been talking about...
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scott_thornbury
Mar 12, 2002 10:53 am
... In researching a book on vocabulary teaching, I found these really useful: - the already mentioned Stevick (MMM, 2nd ed.) - indispensable, no dogmetist...
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Colin Mackenzie
colinfrance
Mar 12, 2002 8:42 pm
... By no means essential reading, but an excellent look at how the brain/mind sets itself problems and sometimes comes up with better, more holistic,...
