I agree with a lot of what CB (Curmudgeonly Bugbear) has to say in his latest post. dk, it astonishes me how you have time to write such posts, teach, read (+...
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lifang67
Oct 3, 2002 2:19 am
Diarmuid: Well, thanks for the warm words, and even for the cold shower of confusing me with...you know who. After all, you also confuse him with some of the...
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prawdziwyanglik
Oct 5, 2002 2:37 pm
I'm at IATEFL Hungary's conference in Veszprem. On the first day, simultaneous sessions were offered in classrooms 1- 10. The final box had no session...
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prawdziwyanglik
Oct 6, 2002 7:17 am
I messed up. The description in the box was actually, 'free for communication', which sounds much better. David French...
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kellogg
lifang67
Oct 7, 2002 5:06 am
On Saturday, Martin Bygate spoke at the annual KoTESOL Conference, a hugely overpriced and hypercommercialized affair attracting mostly foreigners interested...
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Robert Haines
romiha1
Oct 7, 2002 2:31 pm
I've spent the last four weeks in Germany and Greece vacationing and thinking about language learning while using my German and very limited Greek. I haven't...
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Robert Haines
romiha1
Oct 7, 2002 3:42 pm
I realize this message is out of line with dogme discussions, but I'd like to reach as many of you as possible with it. Over the vacation I learned that...
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Peter Coles
pwrcolesuk
Oct 8, 2002 5:25 am
I am working on my MA in English Linguistics via UCE in Birmingham. I do, however, wish that I had undertaken the course, which is actually an MSc, at Aston...
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Jeff Bragg
jeff_bragg2001
Oct 8, 2002 8:30 am
My dear Robert, you poor deluded fool! If you've taken the admirable decision of opening your own school, the LAST thing you'll neeed is a Masters degree - or...
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Fiona
fiotf
Oct 8, 2002 11:22 am
I don't agree with Mr Bragg (Billy, yes; Jeff no, sorry). The last thing you need in TEFL is lots of experience, the Diploma, a CV with 'conference in......'...
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james trotta
gumpersag
Oct 9, 2002 9:59 am
According to How Languages Are Learned by Patsy Lightbrown and Nina Spada, Brigit Harley argues that "form focused instruction is needed for those features ...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Oct 9, 2002 12:01 pm
I've been away for 10 days and have been catching up on my dogme readings. One or two postings prompt me to ask: In 2002 can one honestly recommend a young...
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lifang67
Oct 10, 2002 12:06 am
For example(s): a) English has a rather medieval notion of "five senses" which treats smelling and tasting as completely separate senses, as different as ...
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Janet
jmdshumei
Oct 10, 2002 11:49 pm
Until the day before yesterday I had never heard of Dogme. But since then I've spent all my waking moments (which is most of the hours available) chewing it...
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Fiona
fiotf
Oct 11, 2002 12:03 am
To my mind, yes you're ok. I do that quite often and it works pretty well - we did stem cell research this week with one group, and got heaps of vocab out of...
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Diarmuid
diarmuid_fog...
Oct 11, 2002 4:32 am
I agree with Citizen Fiona. You'd be keeping to the spirit of Dogme if you were to photocopy the articles. In fact, I mentioned this same point a while back. A...
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Julian Bamford
julian12jp
Oct 11, 2002 7:02 am
Janet asks ("New to Dogme; 10/11/02): If the students brought in newspaper articles they had read, found interesting and wanted to tell their classmates about,...
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Tom Walton
tomdoliveira
Oct 11, 2002 7:50 am
Hi. I disagree. I think Dogme is all about smashing the photocopier up or at least not having it fixed the next time it gets ******ed up. Dogme would surely...
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Adrian Tennant
adriantennant
Oct 11, 2002 8:27 am
Hi Luddite, Extremes again. Use whatever resources you've got available (don't we have one member who takes his laptop in + internet connection?) The beauty of...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Oct 11, 2002 9:27 am
I tend to agree with Tom (Down with photocopiers!) - and/but for the following reason. In my experience (that's what I'm writing from, not to toe a party line...
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Luke Meddings
luke@...
Oct 11, 2002 9:40 am
This answer may well be either disingenuous or uningenious, but as someone who deeply regretted acquiring a photocopier for the school I'd helped open -...
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scott_thornbury
Oct 11, 2002 10:03 am
Now that I spend most of my free time in a village which is mainly Catalan speaking I've bitten the bullet and enrolled in a beginners Catalan class. This...
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suemurray@...
suemurrayit
Oct 11, 2002 3:09 pm
just a couple of points on what's been said so far: 1 - isn't there a distinction between photocopies etc used *during* a session vs those given for afterwards...
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Diarmuid
diarmuid_fog...
Oct 11, 2002 7:11 pm
Just a quick line to Janet. As you can see, most people are against photocopies and photocopiers. But this shouldn't lead you to imagine that we are dogmatic....
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lifang67
Oct 11, 2002 11:30 pm
Dear Diarmuid: Suppose you do this. T: "Alright, let's not mess around. To improve your listening comprehension, we're going to start each day with a news...
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Diarmuid
diarmuid_fog...
Oct 12, 2002 6:19 am
Hi dk Well, I'll give it a go although I will approach it very cautiously as I have grown more cynical over the last year. I have been trying to get students...
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Sue Murray
suemurrayit
Oct 12, 2002 1:51 pm
Diarmuid, and anyone else who might be interested, you probably know about this anyway, and I've no idea whether it could be of any use/inspiration (?!) to...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Oct 12, 2002 3:15 pm
//For new members. I've been posting occasional messages about my one-to-one lessons with a German professor who has been coming to me to brush up his English...
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Julian Bamford
julian12jp
Oct 14, 2002 8:47 am
James Trotta wrote ("Brigit Harley and form focused instruction" October 9): "Brigit Harley argues that 'form focused instruction is needed for those features...
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Fiona
fiotf
Oct 14, 2002 11:51 pm
I just read back over the photocopy thread. And realised i said what i didn't quite mean to. Not unusual (cue for a song?). I latched on to the bit about the...
