Hi everyone, For those of you who were/are at the IATEFL conference in Harrogate, I hope you had/are having a good time. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to...
Hi Peter, hi everyone, Just back from Harrogate and thrilled to see that you've had the patience to watch us online! Thanks for letting everyone know about ...
This is a link to a dogme talk by Chia Suan Chong at IATEFL last week. I enjoyed it and would recommend it to anyone thinking about trying or using dogme in...
"there are still plenty of wires and cables to rip out yet" I agree with this, and I like that image of radical unplugging! The idea that people can become...
Hi hear what you're saying Lorna, But while there are so many schools out there who employ teachers without any qualifications and then pay them peanuts, a...
That is sadly true. And of course running an initial teacher training course course over twelve weeks would require a trebling of the course fees - anything...
While I agree with more serious criteria for qualifications, it's not going to happen anytime soon. Far too many schools hire teachers without qualifications...
Hi Anthony (and group), Thanks for replying. I can easily imagine the fear that some teacher trainers may have in unplugging their courses when their are...
Thanks for the kind words and support - both yours and your tutors! It really floors both Izzy and me to get such warm and positive responses. And really...
As Anthony points out costs are the major issue when it comes to courses such as CELTA. And, as it is CELTA (and such qualifications) are really rather small...
Hi Dr. Evil, That's an extremely important point - the 11k teachers per year that take Cambridge ESOL qualifications (CELTA and DELTA) pale into insignificance...
By the way, an older trainer reminded me at IATEFL that back in the day when the CELTA was the RSA Prep Cert, the trainees actually had to teach a no materials...
... Angola, India, Pakistan + this CELTA experiment prove that both these myths are unfounded. Dr E<< As I'm always told whenever I say something as a teacher,...
... I would argue that it is already in the mainstream in the sense that it constitutes a fairly well delimited 'special interest' in UK and European ELT (an...
And what's wrong with anecdotal? What kind of evidence do you want? The bottom line is that in many places teachers automatically teach unplugged (they have no...
Bravo Anthony and Izzy - I stand convinced. And a thoroughly entertaining and self-illustrating talk too ! I arrived in this dogme group because of being a...
Adrian - True, and a random sample of 15,000 (for starters) is arguably pushing the limits of the term "anecdotal" (I pause to smile). Charles - I'll pass on...
Interesting - would you count Germany as an EFL country? I ask because a great deal of ESP one-to-one work is largely approached in an unplugged manner, and...
Thank you very much, Elizabeth! We still have a lot of work to do, though! And yes, welcome to the Year of the Dog(me) ;-) Anthony ... [Non-text portions of...
... Well the anecdotal evidence you provided, if we take it at face value, is that a certain number of teacher trainers you trained are prepared to go out and...
Charles, Just a couple of points ... ... Probably because they lack the resources (most of the teachers I work with don't have Internet so taking part in an...
... Which makes me think of how Jesus is supposed to have fed the multitude. ... You might be passing on one of the best parts of my arguments. Was the...
... cultures in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa?<< Would a close friend who is an English and French teacher in the Gambia get me qualified to opine? I...
I which case you should know that in most context materials-lite teaching is the norm. If teachers and students do have books it is usually a handful for a...
"Is it the case that dogme is a form of 'unplugged', but that not all forms of 'unplugged' are 'dogme'?" The term `unplugged' as applied to dogme was borrowed...
... Well, Crystal does. The German students I deal with here in Japan typically have higher levels of English than the Japanese students. And they are here to...
... It seemed in the case of MTV to turn into a bunch of washed up has-beens doing acoustic covers of their earlier hits. Some of these groups I would never...
... These teachers are non-native speakers, often untrained and often have very little experience.Dr E<< Maybe this thread has found its destiny. If they have...
