Hi Alina, In your case, much similar to any language learning situation, students find it difficult to carry out communicative tasks with minimum language they...
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Natasha Janzen Ulbricht
natashajanzen
Jan 27, 2013 7:27 pm
Hi Alina, In situations where people are in a larger group where they do not know each other, without much structure, it is easy for the lower-level learners ...
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Rob
romiha1
Jan 27, 2013 8:14 pm
Alina, welcome! Your questions are not at all silly but rather just the sort of thing we should be discussing here. Every class is made up of different levels...
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leonitanz
Jan 27, 2013 9:51 pm
Hi Alina, Wow, your teaching situation sounds great ... a group of students all interested in the same things! My approach is a little different, I wouldn't...
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Rob
romiha1
Jan 27, 2013 10:30 pm
While Leona's suggestions are as dogmetic as can be, and I can't disagree with any of them on principle, I want to be clear that I didn't mean to suggest...
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leonitanz
Jan 27, 2013 11:15 pm
Hi Rob, I hadn't read your post until after I sent mine, (was in my spam folder)so the term "dumbing down" wasn't referring to anything you had written. I...
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Rob
romiha1
Jan 27, 2013 11:21 pm
Yes, Leona, I just wanted to clarify that in the context of this thread. It's always impossible to know who's read what and when on blogs and lists like this...
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Gorana
gorana_feriz...
Jan 27, 2013 11:37 pm
'Going to the dentist' was more of an illustration of the world-around-us kind of topics which are primarily aimed at increasing the vocabulary and linguistic...
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Christina
christina.re...
Jan 28, 2013 9:10 am
Hello, I'm doing research on Dogme from students' perspective and am looking to collect some data on the problems/issues that are most common to Dogme...
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Rita Baker
lydbury85
Jan 28, 2013 1:10 pm
Dear Gorana, I think Dogme works fine as long as you have appropriate 'scaffolding' (Vigotsky) to support it. I invite you to visit...
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Rita Baker
lydbury85
Jan 28, 2013 1:15 pm
‘Generally I think we should see tenses not as linear steps towards fluency, but as related features of a connected system which needs to be seen and...
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Alan
manxli
Jan 31, 2013 7:50 pm
Hi This little interactive webtext tool for the projector or white board may be of interest. The featured simple text is marked in word groups according to...
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Alan
manxli
Jan 31, 2013 8:19 pm
Sorry , forgot link to webtext tool = http://manxman.ch/moodle2/file.php/5/Newgames/demogame-en-expand/Story.html...
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peterhnly
Feb 3, 2013 7:58 am
I followed the link to Michel Thomas and...I have no clue what I am doing any more. I transcribed 30 minutes of his course that I found on Youtube, followed it...
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judykirsh
Feb 3, 2013 1:58 pm
Hi Michel Thomas is fascinating. From what I've seen and heard, I think his method is essentially a mix of different approaches, combined and delivered in a...
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Alan
manxli
Feb 3, 2013 7:56 pm
Hi I think this is exactly the point I was trying to make in an earlier post about 'concerns about dogme'. Let's take the example about I how I personally...
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Rob
romiha1
Feb 8, 2013 9:06 pm
I'm absorbed by Rupert Shedrake's book Presence in the Past, and I find myself constantly drawing parallels and creating analogies between his theories and...
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Rita Baker
lydbury85
Feb 8, 2013 10:33 pm
Brilliant Rob. I am a great admirer of Sheldrake’s. Rita Baker | Director Lydbury English Centre Ltd www.lydbury.co.uk<http://www.lydbury.co.uk> From:...
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mcjsa
Feb 9, 2013 2:50 am
Hi Rob, I'll read this in detail later but wanted to mention that Jack London returns to this theme often in his many books. He uses it in a particularly...
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rob
romiha1
Feb 9, 2013 7:00 am
Hi Mark, It's been a while since I read Call of the Wild, and I would say the book is primarily about primitivism, so "genetic memory", as you call it, would...
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Bruno LEYS
leysbruno
Feb 27, 2013 1:44 pm
For those interested: New blog post on an opportunity missed to deal with emergent language. ...
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John Warner
johncrwarner
Mar 4, 2013 6:42 am
Dear Dogme, I saw this this morning from NPR (in the USA) about technology in the classroom I was wondering about people's thoughts on this. ...
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Eric Roth
compellingco...
Mar 4, 2013 11:20 am
Dear John - Thanks for sharing that NPR segment that seems more concerned with the digital gap than encouraging creativity, sharing knowledge, or opening...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Mar 17, 2013 5:19 am
There is an excellent, recent interview with Professor Dr. Stephen Krashen ("Steve") on a blog, website: The Everyday Language Learner run by Aaron. I want to...
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fiotf
Mar 30, 2013 3:57 pm
I must apologise to the group for some spammy messages recently. I've just zapped them. They'd slipped through the net as they appeared to be messages from...
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rob
romiha1
Mar 30, 2013 4:03 pm
Fiona, everyone, I know the feeling, and I'll do my best to be vigilant about that, too. Rob Sent from my iPhone. Please excuse any typos. ... [Non-text...
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fiotf
Mar 31, 2013 6:03 pm
I've just posted this on the eltpics ideas blog, but it's very much about Dogme, a Dogme lesson with a 1-2-1 adult student that worked very well, and I've...
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Jane Arnold
j.thaleia
Mar 31, 2013 6:24 pm
no 1-2-1 classes myself, but if I had one, this would be something I would want to try. Jane ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Rob
romiha1
Apr 1, 2013 12:33 am
Hi Fiona, I like the interaction because it's personal, authentic, intelligent, and fun. The result of your interaction and the student's creativity is a...
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ken_chrisitan
May 12, 2013 9:30 am
This should be a very interesting. David Crystal is a joy to listen to. IATEFL is starting a series of webinars with leading professionals in the field of ELT....
