Ive been covering a class (4 adults at elementary level) for 3 weeks and am scheduled to continue to do so until the end of this month. There had only been 2...
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Jeffrey Dillon
jeffreytaos
Dec 3, 2011 1:39 am
......so find whats useful in the coursebook, examine the grammar or functions, and continue dogme until the other teacher returns. the students should be at...
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J
gjanderson69
Dec 4, 2011 5:38 pm
Thanks and of course that's the best way to proceed. However I think it's interesting that the content is decided not by pedagogical concerns nor learner needs...
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J Anderson
gjanderson69
Dec 4, 2011 6:42 pm
Rob I found this from the early days of the list. I copy it in full here. The three paragraphs following the quotation add something to what I was trying to...
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Robert Haines
romiha1
Dec 4, 2011 7:49 pm
Hi GJ, Thank you for sharing Message #86, drafted by co-founder and moderator of this list, Mr. Scott Thornbury. Mining the archives always turns up a gem or...
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Jeffrey Dillon
jeffreytaos
Dec 5, 2011 10:11 am
... readings, etc.? ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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J Anderson
gjanderson69
Dec 5, 2011 11:18 am
The point is not on how I might continue, though thanks for the advice, but rather on how decisions about classes are made outside of the classroom based on...
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eslkathyf
Dec 7, 2011 7:03 am
John wrote (see below): "what I'd like to know is this: how long has it taken people to show a class that their language can be improved upon without turning...
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AndoDoug
ando_doug
Dec 7, 2011 8:46 am
... I'm just about to get into teaching online one-on-ones - I hope this format eliminates the issue you mention. At least one on one, students are more...
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Robert Haines
romiha1
Dec 7, 2011 4:02 pm
Hi Kathy, Just to say I visited your blog and chuckled at "Free-range ELT". Good one. The mouse photo is cute, too. Rob ... [Non-text portions of this message...
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eslkathyf
Dec 8, 2011 1:06 am
Thanks Rob! I guess it would be "of mice and women" in my case, hah!...
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eslkathyf
Dec 8, 2011 1:57 am
Maybe students who choose the online format are generally more open to "new approaches"? That's an interesting idea....
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metaweb20
fstonehouse
Dec 9, 2011 6:24 pm
Hi all, Being new here, I wanted to introduce myself. My name is Frank Stonehouse. I am an EFL professor at ITESM, Tecnológico de Monterrey, in Mexico. I am...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Dec 11, 2011 8:56 am
For the last conversation this year in the IATEFL YLTSIG series"In conversation with..." we would like to invite you to hear Harry Kuchah talking about the...
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philawade
Dec 11, 2011 4:14 pm
Hi Frank, Interesting post. I'm still quite new here too but I have been experimenting with Dogme in EFL exam classes including TOEIC. I work in France and...
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mcjsa@...
mcjsa
Dec 11, 2011 6:43 pm
Hi Phil, We do a lot of standardized testing where I work but exam prep isn't part of our curriculum, for reasons you explain below. Only a couple of teachers...
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philawade
Dec 12, 2011 4:21 am
Hi Mark, Sounds very modern.Back in the old days we have prep classes for FCE, CAE, CPE, TOEFL, TOEIC, BEC, IELTS. Full-term ones too. Now, I see more and more...
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philawade
Dec 14, 2011 6:32 am
Hi all, I've just started Phone English classes and am trying to keep track of how they develop on my blog. So far, I've included my ideas, the 1st lesson and...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Dec 14, 2011 1:04 pm
... -- -- * *Dennis Newson* Formerly : University of Osnabrueck, GERMANY Committee member | Discussion List Manager | IATEFL YLT SIG Creator: YLTSIG NING...
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Robert Haines
romiha1
Dec 16, 2011 4:57 pm
An edited summary of comments made by the students I work with, who've used coursebooks most of their lives and have been learning 'unplugged' for the past...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Dec 16, 2011 5:07 pm
Very quotable. Dennis [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Anna Whitcher
anna_sf...
Dec 17, 2011 1:35 am
Thanks for sharing, Rob. Good stuff. This is what we need to tap into in order to create more meaningful material for our students. Anna ...
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mcjsa@...
mcjsa
Dec 17, 2011 4:40 am
Hi Gang, I've been following the Think Outside the Books thread and wondering, again, about why people tend to see Dogme as tied to "conversation" practice....
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Dec 17, 2011 5:15 am
Mark, Thanks for that. I have not heard of Focal Skills, but I am a great admirer of Stephen Krashen - he seems to speak and write a lot of sense to me. It...
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philawade
Dec 17, 2011 6:14 am
Hi Rob. Great list. Here are some quotes from my classes that started with a book and failed. This book was an ESP one: 1)It's too expensive 2)There's nothing...
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Robert Haines
romiha1
Dec 20, 2011 5:32 am
http://sjhannam.edublogs.org/2010/03/08/critical-dogme-or-dogme-with-sympathy-for-the-critical/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Robert Haines
romiha1
Dec 20, 2011 7:16 am
One thing I might have to ask myself within the next couple of days, as the light wanes and winter sets in, is this: Rob, are you primarily a trainer or an...
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romiha1
Dec 20, 2011 2:03 pm
For list members who observe Christmas, of course. For the rest, it can be holiday reading or just reading....
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mcjsa@...
mcjsa
Dec 21, 2011 8:30 am
A holiday FROM reading is also nice to have from time to time. The holiday not reading list: * watch the rain * dig a hole * look under a rock * go to the mall...
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Robert Haines
romiha1
Dec 21, 2011 8:51 pm
Dogme is Conversation-driven. To converse, we take turns with our conversation partner(s), or interlocutors, and thus 'make conversation'. Any truly...
