After having returned from a week training etc in Uzbekistan I come back to over 30 Dogme mails as well as all the others. So, it takes me a few days to read...
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Adrian Tennant
adriantennant
Mar 1, 2003 8:55 am
... learners summarise their conversations to you? And then work on the language emerging ('That teacher - what's he fucking doing...I'm asking for my money...
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Adrian Tennant
adriantennant
Mar 1, 2003 2:22 pm
Danica, Have you ever been to the Ministry Winter or Summer schools? Last years Summer school was in Donja Milanovic and the Winter Seminar this year (in...
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Dimitrijevic
dimitrijevic@...
Mar 1, 2003 11:27 pm
Hi! I'm still just a student so I'm not really sure I know what you're talking about. I am sure I wasn't there, though. But thanks for asking. This is becoming...
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Adrian Tennant
adriantennant
Mar 2, 2003 9:52 am
Both Luke & dk have talked about .... ... You should teach the lesson that the learner leads and creates, and that's why you walk in without a lesson plan. ...
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Sue Murray
suemurrayit
Mar 2, 2003 9:31 pm
great postings over the last few weeks - and been wanting to say a big thanks to Glenys and to Rob B for sharing their 'iconoclastic' grammar stuff (21 Feb) -...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Mar 4, 2003 6:29 am
Is a dogme drink-in planned for those rich enough to be attending the IATEFL annual conference at Brighton? Who will be attending? Dennis...
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Adrian Tennant
adriantennant
Mar 4, 2003 6:48 am
I guess Dr Evil ... From: "Dennis Newson" <dnewson@...> To: <dogme@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 6:29 AM Subject: [dogme] Brighton IATEFL...
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Robert.Buckmaster@...
rbuckmasteree
Mar 4, 2003 8:29 am
I'll be there. rob B ... From: Adrian Tennant [mailto:adrian.tennant@...] Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 8:49 AM To: dogme@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re:...
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guiripoet <guiripo...
guiripoet
Mar 4, 2003 4:31 pm
Did anyone see the article about 'using breaking news in class' in Modern English Teacher? I don't have it to hand so I don't remember the writer but I do...
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lifang67
Mar 5, 2003 8:39 am
Steve: Yes, I DID read the MET thing. I thought the teacher an awful hypocrite, because the kids were really just trying to get inside the heads of the...
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james trotta
gumpersag
Mar 5, 2003 11:20 am
This story about the anti-war shirt reminded me of just how oppressive American education can be. During the Gulf war everyone in my middle school was crowded...
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lifang67
Mar 6, 2003 7:40 am
I've lamented here (and there and everywhere) the apparent inability of Koreans to self-organize into "English Corners" the way that Chinese learners do. Far...
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mathewbrigham
Mar 6, 2003 3:24 pm
Hello friends, sorry to break the flow of the war theme which hasd been most interesting. I was just wondering if anyone could help me out to search for...
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kellogg
lifang67
Mar 6, 2003 11:50 pm
Mat: I had a similar problem with the EPT (the English Proficiency Test) in China. I was, back then, a bit naive; I foolishly believed that if one takes care...
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Adrian Tennant
adriantennant
Mar 7, 2003 8:09 am
Dear Matt, I have to echo what dk said about 'teaching language not being eough for exams'. For my sins I used to be 'in charge' of exams at the places I...
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Sue Murray
suemurrayit
Mar 7, 2003 11:51 pm
hi mat! as dk and Adrian say, it's never gonna be very dogme like when you're dealing with exams...... one possible 'dogme like' aspect of this course you...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Mar 9, 2003 3:25 am
Mat, Perhaps, in the spirit of dogme, you should not go into the class with assumptions about how to prepare them for the examination, but start from the...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Mar 9, 2003 4:30 am
I happen to have attended a presentation in Berlin yesterday by someone from Cambridge talking about the their suite of examinations and she concentrated...
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Jay Schwartz
jschwartz63
Mar 9, 2003 10:03 am
Hi everyone and Matt! Echoing Dennis, I have heard Cambridge chief examiners state many times especially in the context of the FCE writing section, that ...
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scott_thornbury
Mar 9, 2003 1:43 pm
... date. So I'd ... I hope ... Thank you, Jay. Wow - three years old today. And nearly 3000 postings. Who would've thought? (And this recent discussion on FCE...
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Luke Meddings
luke@...
Mar 9, 2003 7:57 pm
Yes, thanks Jay - and a shout out to David French, who was also there at the very start. Looking forward to Brighton... Luke ... Luke Meddings London ... From:...
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kellogg
lifang67
Mar 10, 2003 7:48 am
I've been preparing this course on "Practice and Theory of Literacy", and one of the things I have to do is to read a lot about laboratory experiments on...
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Justin Ehresman
justinehresman
Mar 10, 2003 11:58 am
I found this interesting...... #So it probably doesn't make much sense to "train" people to #skim or scan or do anything much with written language that #they...
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Jay Schwartz
jschwartz63
Mar 10, 2003 12:47 pm
Kellogg wrote: "we don't sound out words when we read." Dk1, who are you referring to when you say "WE"? Native speakers? Non-native speakers? Multi-lingual...
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lifang67
Mar 11, 2003 12:06 am
Fiona (Hi, Fiona!) remarked a while ago that she no longer uses "predictive reading from the title", and even gave a spectacular example of why. Using Scott's...
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Robert.Buckmaster@...
rbuckmasteree
Mar 11, 2003 8:40 am
Throwing in my tuppence worth on scanning and skimming - I personally only skim when I get bored with a text. I only scan particular texts or texts which I...
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guiripoet
Mar 11, 2003 1:01 pm
I like the idea of the painting as a conversationi piece. I was thinking something similar when I visited the Richard Hamilton retrospective at the MACBA here...
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lifang67
Mar 12, 2003 1:07 am
Remember when Congress rechristened "sauerkraut" as "Liberty Cabbage" and the Queen changed her Teutonic name to "Windsor"? Hey, it's deja vu all over again! ...
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lifang67
Mar 13, 2003 6:33 am
I'm still wondering, among other things, how Americans manage to take George W. Bush and his gang of kill-crazy thugs seriously. I think it's actually related...
