Interesting observing a lesson today which opened with fairly open, personalised conversation and then moved onto the coursebook material for which the opening...
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David Kellogg
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Aug 5, 2000 12:29 am
When I first read your comments, I thought, hmmm, a buzz is not necessarily learning, and a silence not necessarily not. Secondly, I thought, you have to...
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sthornbury@...
Aug 7, 2000 9:29 pm
Today's Dogme lesson - new group, six students, upper int. Initial chat (one woman just back from spending her summer doing aid work in India, another about to...
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Luke Meddings
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Aug 8, 2000 10:13 am
1 OK, this begs a question: what is the difference between coming up with an activity like this and using one from a coursebook? My answers are: a) if it...
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David French
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Aug 8, 2000 11:13 am
Hello All, I'm back from Italy and well pestoed. I still have to read through all the stuff and then I might make a contribution. David...
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sthornbury@...
Aug 8, 2000 10:15 pm
Interestingly, the second lesson with this group didn't go anywhere near so well. Feeling I ought to make some use of the coursebooks they'd forked out for, I...
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David French
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Aug 9, 2000 10:27 am
Would any of you guys have time to write to this Japanese teacher? (maybe Scott) I'm a little snowed under at the moment. Niki Iwasaka/Yasuko Ohmi"...
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sthornbury@...
Aug 14, 2000 7:31 am
David, Graham, Luke I need your IATEFL Membership nos.(or those of your institution) so as to be able to complete the Conference proposal form for Brighton....
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Luke Meddings
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Aug 14, 2000 12:13 pm
Scott, our institutional membership is pending renewal but having spoken to IATEFL today they say we can quote the previous number, which is 7763 for Lilian...
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David French
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Aug 16, 2000 2:16 pm
I was thinking about this recently. I think the very pro-coursebook types have to be conscious of the following. What's the difference between a dogme/...
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David French
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Aug 18, 2000 11:00 am
Luke and the rest of the company, I was thinking that it would be great if we could write up a few of our classes in quite a lot of detail by having an...
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sthornbury@...
Aug 24, 2000 8:25 pm
Help - I need a 250 word synopsis of the IATEFL conference panel discussion. This is not to go in the conference programme, it's simply for vetting purposes....
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David Kellogg
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Aug 25, 2000 8:03 am
Scott: My IATEFL membership number is 8459, whatever that means. I just got back from three weeks in China, and a week locked in a hotel vetting middle school...
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G Hall
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Aug 29, 2000 9:04 am
Hi I'm slowly gearing up for action after a nice long break.Time to hit all those messages, so more later. Scott, my IATEFL number's 8011 (individual ...
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G Hall
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Aug 30, 2000 11:30 am
Hi I'm a long way behind, but thought I'd just make one or two shortish comments. _______________________________________________ Re: Exploratory Practice and...
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David French
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Aug 30, 2000 1:45 pm
Hello Graham, Leading on from your comments. About pairwork, in one conversation class I have, I deliberately don't monitor the conversations, in fact I'm less...
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David French
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Sep 4, 2000 10:32 am
Dear All, I'm away until next Tuesday. Graham, We'll catch up with the Informal Ed. stuff then. David F....
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David Kellogg
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Sep 7, 2000 4:13 am
I didn't respond to the suggestion to describe a class last week, because it was the first week and we were doing rather untypical things: gettting to know...
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David French
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Sep 15, 2000 2:27 pm
David, I'm not quite clear how video fitted into the teacher trainers' lesson plans. Could you explain? And why weren't they allowed to use it? David F....
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David Kellogg
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Sep 16, 2000 1:26 am
DF: Sorry, I was a bit elliptic in the last one. My previous postings have been too long to be interactive; I was trying for a short turn and I guess I cut too...
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David Kellogg
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Sep 19, 2000 7:32 am
All: I realize that the film connection has been over-stressed in these pages, but I cannot help a short (I hope) note on the film "Not One Less", by Zhang...
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David French
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Sep 25, 2000 3:33 pm
I observed today that letting ones tension go and staying relaxed is extremely important in this emergent style (stop me if I'm repeating myself). There's...
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David Kellogg
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Sep 26, 2000 6:18 am
DF: Why should the teacher be solely responsible for maintaining the dynamic of a classroom? If he/she really is, can you call it a conversation? DK...
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G Hall
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Sep 26, 2000 9:08 am
Hi, The following 'lesson' took place last week. I think it fits in with what David wrote. I was taking a one-off session (lesson would perhaps be not the most...
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Luke Meddings
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Sep 26, 2000 2:54 pm
Let's keep it going. Luke *********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********...
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David Kellogg
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Sep 26, 2000 11:18 pm
I have another "dogme" parable for the archives. It's about my usual bugbear: the nature of authenticity, and whether it is authentic to be true to a false...
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G Hall
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Sep 27, 2000 8:18 am
David wrote: What Graham's anecdote suggests to me is that our learners are not nearly as easily irked as we are, and may even enjoy improbable switches of...
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David Kellogg
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Sep 28, 2000 11:07 pm
Short and Sweet G: Hundreds of years ago, when I was in my twenties, I went to study Arabic in Tunis. We had classes in classical Arabic which were suitably ...
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Jesse Mumm
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Sep 29, 2000 4:33 pm
Dear anyone, I am a secondary English teacher at an alternative high school in Chicago forming part of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center. My work parallels a...
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David French
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Sep 29, 2000 5:09 pm
Hi Jesse, David here. Thanks for posting the message. It will be interesting to hear your slant on the discussion once you find your bearings. I'm going to...
