If you're on the same calendar as I am, that is... Even though it's about work, this video speaks in favor of Dogme, I find, with a message that we are...
Hello everyone, My name's Zahid Sheikh and I teach English in Jordan. I'm a newcomer to this very famous discussion group. I'm very interested in Dogme and...
Zahid, Welcome from one existing member of the list to a new one! So you are teaching in Jordan. Very interesting. Classroom management was not, is not my...
Hello Zahid, Can you tell us more about your class? What age group are you teaching. How would you describe their adverage English language competency. How...
Hi Zahid, I'm going to pass on calling myself an expert in classroom management too. However, your question reminded me of an article I read by Shehdeh Fareh...
Natasha, Thank you so much for that link and the article. It takes me back to near the beginning of my career when I taught in a middle boys' school in Doha, ...
Hi Denis, I'm in Saudi Arabia and have been for the past 18 years. The situation here is not so dire as you describe in Doha 40 years ago but there are still...
Thanks to Mike, Natasha, Dennis, and to everyone else. That's all interesting stuff. In terms of culture, it almost certainly has something to do with...
Hey - can you guys please erase most of the message you are repluing to, because it makes a lot of scrolling down on the email - thanks. I teach engineering...
Hi Elizabeth, Thanks for the reminder about cutting off trailing messages. Zahid asked about students' use of L1 in the classroom and you address the same...
Thanks again for the help Elizabeth. It does really seem like just reasoning with them makes sense. Also, I second the thanks to Natasha on that article. ...
Thanks for the Mark. That was good stuff! I've actually seen that some argue that it's better have a certain amount of L1 in the class. Maybe you've got a...
Mike, Mark, Zahid, I have read all your remarks about whether or not it should be "English only" in the classroom with great interest. I have always been an...
Hello Dennis, Thanks for you interesting comments. You've helped to clarify the fact that while we are all engaged in similar activities, none of us really has...
Mark and list. Wow, Mark. Thanks for a fascinating post. Long live "old-fashioned" email discussion lists like dogme for providing an environment in which such...
Mark and list. There are a couple of points I forgot. 1. You write of Maryanne Wolf: "I don't think she looked at reading centers of bilinguals or second...
Hi Dennis, The car accident language erasure case sounds like something Oliver Sacks would report. I'd be interested to read about it if you remember where you...
Sorry, URL to Nabokov lecture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boSFjzWJXcU It is in three parts and worth watching, especially if you are teaching literature. ...
Those should hang on the walls of every staff room, of every language ( or not ) school. “The more we dictate behavior of others, the more we impinge on...
Mark and list. Got it. Maryanne Wolf: Proust and the Squid p 60 "The differential use of hemispheres is clear in a fascinating early bilingual case study,...
Celso, I second your comment, which was I asked for permission to quote. Just one remark, though: "But I still suspect that in many cases an L2-only policy...
Dear Dennis, Oh how I wish you (and the rest of the world) would read James Hillman's book The Soul's Code. Rob ... [Non-text portions of this message have...
Dennis, nothing like the old, never-ending discussion about L1xL2 to animate our debates, in this and every other EFL/ESL list, isn't it? :-) Personally, I too...
Celso, It sounds to me from what you write as if we are very largely in agreement. "Banning, forbidding, prohibiting, dictating, impinging ... I hate those...
People seem to keep searching for general rules, principles, recipes... It seems to help us structure our life, makes it easier to cope. At the same time, I...
Bruno, It's hard to imagine anyone disagreeing with your statement: "If mother tongue usage can facilitate learning in a certain context, than it is a useful...
“It's hard to imagine anyone disagreeing with your statement” hmmm not so hard to imagine, but, actually, easily observed, Dennis. Just take a look at that...
Celso, Heavens above. I hope I wasn't one of the persecutors! People, like me, who love arguing the toss on elists may well at times let their own rhetoric ...
Celso, I will ignore Dennis's egregious and henious attack on grammar for the time being and focus on your clearly rhetorical question: "How do you convince a...
