LOL - had the same thought Emma, which led me somehow to thinking about Coca Cola!...
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literacyacrosscultures
literacyacro...
Jul 2, 2010 2:59 am
A recent effort to try and use wikipedia in order to collaborate online--on some linguistics articles--has told me that there must be something missing for...
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Joel
joel_josephson
Jul 3, 2010 10:24 am
Thank you all for the discussion. Further to Karenne's suggestion (and she has guineau pigged - is that a correct verb form??) I have now placed a short...
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Mihaela Dascalu
midas_ro
Jul 3, 2010 1:24 pm
My friend, http://sites.google.com/site/yltanstfbp/kokzeu5aid - it is checked up (5z9eniz06b)...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Jul 5, 2010 6:14 pm
I'd like to bring to your attention the original English version of a speech on the importance of learning German/learning a foreign language by the novelist...
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fiotf
Jul 15, 2010 10:50 am
This has just been posted on the YLTSig list, but I thought people over here might have answers or be interested in the topic. Fiona ... From: Alexander Sokol ...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Jul 15, 2010 9:40 pm
Posted, with apologies to those of you on both lists, to YLTSIG and Dogme ... Hi, Alexander. There are some classic books, of course, that were based at some...
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Peter
peter_everton
Jul 16, 2010 3:48 pm
Hi everyone, I've been studying towards the Trinity Diploma for the last few months and part of it involves a developmental record portfolio, which is a...
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Frank
fjferendo
Jul 17, 2010 4:08 pm
Hi Everyone, I've written a brief summary of the Dogme method. I wanted to have a concise two page explanation to remind myself and to share with friends for a...
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Scott
scott_thornbury
Jul 17, 2010 6:37 pm
Thanks Frank for this succinct, jargon-free definition of dogme, and explanation of how it works in practice. Scott...
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Helen West
helenwest1
Jul 18, 2010 9:37 pm
Dennis, I think the French film was Avoir et Etre? or Etre et Avoir? regards Helen [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Jul 19, 2010 1:03 pm
Yes, Helen. Thanks. See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C139J92sq7g ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
My hat off to you Karenne. I could not change a word there.You express clearly an elegantly what had been on my mind for quite a time now. I don't write often...
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bbz
oprocrastina...
Jul 20, 2010 3:48 am
Having just come back from the Pragmatics and Language Learning conference in Kobe, Japan, I would hope could you add "address pragmatic issues" Ýto number 6...
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aurerua
Jul 22, 2010 12:47 pm
Hi everyone, I had the chance to find out about Dogme just a few weeks before starting a 2hours a day week of teaching with an advanced learner. I had almost...
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literacyacrosscultures
literacyacro...
Jul 26, 2010 6:15 am
Many might think that forcing absolute beginners into oral production would be detrimental to their development as foreign language learners. I guess a related...
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Celso Camargo
celsocamargors
Jul 26, 2010 2:11 pm
This msg has been sitting for a while. Since no one else seem to bother to reply, here's my two cents: post # 15443, by Frank, who made the latest attempt to...
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aurerua
Jul 27, 2010 11:30 am
Thank you for your answers Charles and Celso. It is a bit sad that so little has been written about teaching beginners though (both in the book or on this...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Jul 27, 2010 12:28 pm
This question has been asked quite a few times during the life of this list and a search of the archives under "beginners" ought to unearth some of the ...
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ElizabethA
eannegrenoble
Jul 27, 2010 5:43 pm
Not a very dogme reply, but I have to jump in here when I read "I might teach French to complete beginners" I feel very strongly that while communication is...
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literacyacrosscultures
literacyacro...
Jul 28, 2010 9:46 am
... This is a good point. Japanese is more inflected and patterned, but you do have to memorize the major patterns, the minor patterns, etc. I think on the...
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Bruno Leys
leysbruno
Jul 28, 2010 10:00 am
Another aspect may also be the difference between L1 and the foreign language and the presence/absence of a false beginners context. A dogme approach is...
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Susan Burg
susaneburg
Jul 28, 2010 5:43 pm
Dear Charles et al, <I think on the other hand this is why English lends itself well to 'lexical approaches'. Still, mastery of English 'word order and...
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literacyacrosscultures
literacyacro...
Jul 29, 2010 1:00 am
... Memorisation of patterns without context is not really what I'd advocate in learning any foreign language. Contextual drill can be an alternative, which...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Jul 29, 2010 5:47 am
Charles, Thanks for a great post. You put so many fingers on so many points let me take just one of them for the moment. You write: "What if your students'...
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literacyacrosscultures
literacyacro...
Jul 29, 2010 6:27 am
... Well Dennis, for example, I have to teach large classes of such students and I look at it like this: we (the students and I)are pretty much in the same...
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Bruno Leys
leysbruno
Jul 29, 2010 6:52 am
... I teach in an integrated teacher training course, which means that students start their training right after sixth form. The three-year bacherlor course...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Jul 29, 2010 9:04 am
Back to you Charles and list. Charles, I note you are in Japan. Rather far off from North Germany. Can't I persuade you and anyone else interested to join...
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mauriceclaypole
Jul 29, 2010 2:45 pm
Call for papers (2010/2) Posted by Maurice Claypole Member of Advisory Board Languages and Dialogues Languages and Dialogues ...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Jul 29, 2010 4:31 pm
Mark, I fear accuracy is not my strong point. See the beginning of the Importance... by Wilde.... "Did you hear what I was playing, Laine? I don't play...
