(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
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
Dear re-named dkL, What, at the end of your ever finer re-definitions and onion-peeling, lengthy, brain-teasing idiosyncratic, ideolectual examinations of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
... 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...
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...
(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...
I would not make any claim that utterances produced through back-chaining exercises (when contextualised and what a person is struggling to articulate) become...
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...
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...
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....
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"...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
