So, *this* is the message Rob was replying to! I got his reply before I got your message Dennis. But my response would be the same! Do both! Why not? You're...
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Julian Bamford
julian12jp
Sep 2, 2002 4:09 am
Dennis describes a language session, and ask, "Any comments?" If you think of language learning in a Stevickian way, i.e., making changes in the learners'...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Sep 2, 2002 6:03 am
Julian makes the excellent suggestion: "How about asking your student for comments? Ask him to write a short diary entry about each future session." I have...
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Julian Bamford
julian12jp
Sep 3, 2002 6:59 am
Dennis asks (8/30; teacher's role vs. ordinary people): "can you really cite examples of where you have been able get your learners in some way to practice new...
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Diarmuid
diarmuid_fog...
Sep 3, 2002 9:36 pm
Of course, it might not be real, but for the time it'll take you to read this, it's probably worth the risk. At least it doesn't tell you to remove some...
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kellogg
lifang67
Sep 4, 2002 8:14 am
There is a knock at the door, followed by the entrance of the sort of perfect "Everyday New Face" touted by the Dior, or maybe Laneige. Hard on the heels of...
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kjhilton
Sep 5, 2002 12:04 am
can anyone help? I've been enlisted to give a seminar on written error correction aimed at teachers of IELTS exams - academic writing courses. I'ce chosen to...
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lifang67
Sep 5, 2002 2:34 am
Jane: I've always been rather hostile to reformulation. Just like the conversation stopper "Very good, Minsu!", reformulation is a bit of a composition...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Sep 5, 2002 6:18 am
Jane, inter alia you write: "This comes from seeing too many essays that follow the 'prescription' of academic writing ie topic sentence and littered with...
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Julian Bamford
julian12jp
Sep 5, 2002 8:56 am
Comments on dk's The Limits of Autos dk: "..."automaticity" and the related concept of "permanence", which I think we are equating with autonomy, or...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Sep 5, 2002 9:42 am
I posted recently about my uneasiness at taking the number of new lexical items in my notes as an indication of effectiveness in 60-minute lessons with a...
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scott_thornbury
Sep 5, 2002 1:17 pm
Deborah wrote (a while back , but I've been away) that: "One of us said a few messages back that they learn a language by listening carefully to hear what...
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F. Mortes
mortes2000
Sep 5, 2002 1:53 pm
Scott, On the subject of shadowing and reconstruction/reformulation: I believe it's in "Teaching and Learning Languages" that Stevick describes an activity...
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sthornbury@...
scott_thornbury
Sep 5, 2002 4:55 pm
And Sir Richard Burton, learner of some 30 or more Asian, Middle Easter and African languages, had this to say: "...whenever I conversed with anybody in a...
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lifang67
Sep 6, 2002 8:05 am
Sorry, Julian and Matt-- I'm afraid my posting was more writerly than it really should have been--I was trying to fit too much into two many different...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Sep 6, 2002 1:46 pm
dk quotes and comments as follows: "S1: How was your yesterday evening? S2: No, that's wrong. You must say "How was yesterday evening?" S1: OK. How was...
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lifang67
Sep 7, 2002 3:24 am
Dennis: I teach graduate students. My graduate students are all teachers. That's why they sometimes sound like teachers. I did doctor the data slightly--there...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Sep 7, 2002 7:27 am
dk wrote: "You always bring a healthy cynicism to my posts! Nevertheless, you are usually wrong." I laughed out loud at that, with enjoyment, not irritation,...
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Fiona
fiotf
Sep 9, 2002 12:26 am
Sorry if this is way out-of-date, but having been away, I'm catching up on what I missed. Robert, you wonder what makes you 'the teacher' different from the...
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kellogg
lifang67
Sep 10, 2002 8:15 am
Last night in the Whole Language class the graduates were discussing what happens when you successfully guess (but just a lucky guess) the gist of a...
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Fiona
fiotf
Sep 11, 2002 10:48 am
As the start of term looms, I'm thinking about how to make the compulsory text more dogme-friendly. Or rather, our use of the book. I figured the first thing...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Sep 11, 2002 4:17 pm
Fiona, Just a couple of very straightforward ideas, based partly on methods I've tried out. Vocab (listed in the book) Get them to chose 10 items or so - in...
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Richard Samson
rmisw
Sep 11, 2002 8:23 pm
Hi, David. I have nothing much to add to your intriguing post of earlier today/yesterday but as you mentioned me by name I thought I would signal that I had...
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Diarmuid
diarmuid_fog...
Sep 11, 2002 8:48 pm
I've got to say, F, I'm all out of good ideas, despite not having had any for quite some time, but I need to try...! Today's class went terribly. Four hours...
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scott_thornbury
Sep 11, 2002 10:36 pm
Periodically we invite new members (and old lurkers) to come forward and introduce themselves. Since (for many) a new academic year is about to begin, it seems...
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Deborah
debdogme
Sep 11, 2002 11:59 pm
Don't you think sometimes the writing we get from students depends on how much or well we prepare them for whatever the writing task was? No class discussion,...
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Deborah
debdogme
Sep 12, 2002 12:06 am
A bit old, actually, one of those over 40s somebody mentioned recently who want to have the grammar safety blanket. Not so! Much prefer to find people to...
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Diarmuid
diarmuid_fog...
Sep 12, 2002 6:32 am
Thanks for your post, Deborah, which was far from boring and will be put into practice before too long. Yesterday, in the class that kept me awake pretty much...
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Adrian Tennant
adriantennant
Sep 12, 2002 7:01 am
Hi Diarmuid, Brainstorming!!! Ah! yes! I would guess that most of your students are Asian (probably Chinese)? - I say this because other colleagues have had...
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Julian Bamford
julian12jp
Sep 12, 2002 8:00 am
Diarmuid, I don't know if this will be balm, but here goes. . . If, as a high beginner in Japanese, I was asked to brainstorm solutions to help me improve my...
