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...
... 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...
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...
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. ...
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) -...
I guess Dr Evil ... From: "Dennis Newson" <dnewson@...> To: <dogme@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 6:29 AM Subject: [dogme] Brighton IATEFL...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I happen to have attended a presentation in Berlin yesterday by someone from Cambridge talking about the their suite of examinations and she concentrated...
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 ...
... 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:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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! ...
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...
