(Thanks, Fiona, and to you too!) It's the morning after the night before, and London is still rousing minds to life. So, while waiting, here is a longish quote...
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Jane Arnold
arnold@...
Jan 1, 2003 12:26 pm
I'll add my wish to Fiona's for the new year. Here in Spain gifts are given on the 3 Kings day coming up now in Jan. For one of my sons, who is finishing his...
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Jay Schwartz
jschwartz63
Jan 1, 2003 1:51 pm
Hi! With regards to "caring" (Fiona's message) and "sharing" (DK1's message ): Firstly the caring - Happy New Year to you all! Secondly the sharing: I would...
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Robert Haines <hai...
romiha1
Jan 2, 2003 1:47 am
A joke which might help illustrate one difference between indirect and direct objects: A ham sandwich walks into bar, and the bartender says, "Sorry, we don't...
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Tom Topham
tom_topham
Jan 2, 2003 1:55 am
Hi dkl and all, Happy ha ha etc I also iuse a lot of microteaching, and I agree that "fake students" who know the outcome of a task is problematic. Here are a...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Jan 2, 2003 6:00 pm
Before Christmas, I promised to find and post the details of an article on the (supposed) use of direct and indirect speech, aka direct and reported speech. ...
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lifang67 <kellogg@...
lifang67
Jan 3, 2003 8:47 pm
Tom: Yeah, I think that's it. The activity In-seong was doing (the "six degrees of separation" thing) was not a specific technique. And I think that your...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Jan 3, 2003 9:15 pm
Dear re-named dkL, What, at the end of your ever finer re-definitions and onion-peeling, lengthy, brain-teasing idiosyncratic, ideolectual examinations of...
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Adrian Tennant
adriantennant
Jan 3, 2003 10:20 pm
Hi dk, Who are you writing the book for? It's a pity but you just missed a nice chat on the TEA site on including more pragmatics & activities for negotiating...
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Brian Perkins <per...
perkinsfam
Jan 5, 2003 4:31 pm
Hello fellow dog-people, Sorry I haven't been actively participating recently, but I've been overwhelmed by my studies and job search. I'm just writing...
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lifang67 <kellogg@...
lifang67
Jan 5, 2003 7:25 pm
I've just come back from the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square. Right near the Orange Street exit (for those of you in London) there is a red room with two...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Jan 6, 2003 12:42 pm
I've already written to dkl off-list about my imperiousness - I was being a bit of a smart alec I thought after I'd sent my last message - but I'm not...
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guiripoet <guiripo...
guiripoet
Jan 6, 2003 1:05 pm
I know this is dead stale after the festive holidays and all, but at the risk of being boring I'd like to clarify, since I didn't make myself clear the first...
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guiripoet <guiripo...
guiripoet
Jan 6, 2003 2:00 pm
dk: There was also a handout I inherited for a training input on reported speech, with the script of an invented interview, eg: Where are you from? Argentina ...
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Adrian Tennant
adriantennant
Jan 6, 2003 2:17 pm
Hi Steve, Another little gem of a myth prolonged and perpetuated by most coursebooks is the context of weather forecasts for 'will'. I've taken the liberty...
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lifang67 <kellogg@...
lifang67
Jan 8, 2003 10:31 am
Yes, there was a good bit in the last issue but one of Applied Linguistics (back home in Korea, so I don't have the ref) on the ability of science teachers to...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Jan 8, 2003 11:38 am
I've found backchaining is useful in the following kind of situation. You have a learner who very much wants to make a specific utterance - say - " The...
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Tom Topham
tom_topham
Jan 8, 2003 4:06 pm
... When you are trying to encourage the native-like shortening of unstressed vowels and contractions in a fussy bit of grammar. For example "I shouldn't have...
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Robert Wood
rob_wood_2000
Jan 8, 2003 6:02 pm
Grammar, vocabulary or whatever, if we don't equip the learners with the tools to be able to pronounce the item(s) comprehensibly, and this links strongly to...
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lifang67 <kellogg@...
lifang67
Jan 9, 2003 9:04 am
(There is a Bergman festival on at the National Film Theatre, and I've been going a lot, hence my opening shot.) Have you ever wondered why it is that dreams...
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dnewson@...
dnewson2001
Jan 9, 2003 9:24 am
I would not make any claim that utterances produced through back-chaining exercises (when contextualised and what a person is struggling to articulate) become...
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Robert Wood
rob_wood_2000
Jan 10, 2003 4:27 pm
Dennis hits the nail on the head, I think, as did Tom. To try to sum this up, back-chaining is a technique to help learners pronounce language items they...
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guiripoet <guiripo...
guiripoet
Jan 11, 2003 7:36 pm
An interesting byte from another feedback I did before Christmas. With Montse T as with other 121 students it's produced a whole programme to follow in the new...
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Deborah
debdogme
Jan 11, 2003 10:45 pm
Hi everybody It has taken me till now to work my way through the backlog of messages from dogme and TEA that I allowed to build up over the 'festive' season....
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lifang67 <kellogg@...
lifang67
Jan 11, 2003 11:47 pm
Here in England I'm starting to notice more and more how syllable based pronunciation is. For example, there is a British way of pronouncing the word "stupid"...
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juan moreno
hardbrown71
Jan 14, 2003 7:50 pm
PETITION ENGLISCH The United States of America is at the moment ready to dictate a war. Today we find ourselves worldwide in an unequal balance which could ...
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Jay Schwartz
jschwartz63
Jan 15, 2003 6:59 am
Re: the "petition"; I'll assume that the only reason why anyone would send this petition to the "DOGME" list was that there is implied suggestion that we DOGME...
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Justin Ehresman
justinehresman
Jan 15, 2003 11:04 am
I hope this isn't taken the wrong way... but I personally don't feel that a discussion group for teachers is an appropriate place to post political petitions...
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luke
spear_shaker...
Jan 15, 2003 11:58 am
I personally don't mind; it's no big deal and the issues at stake are much bigger than teachers' discussion groups and the compartmentalized way in which some...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Jan 15, 2003 12:18 pm
I'm with Spear Shaker on this one - no peace, no list - but I'm told that the UN site does not accept these petitions and suggests contacting individual...
