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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
'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...
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...
‘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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
Dear John - Thanks for sharing that NPR segment that seems more concerned with the digital gap than encouraging creativity, sharing knowledge, or opening...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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]...
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...
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....
