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...
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David Kellogg
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Oct 5, 2000 12:59 am
Jesse: Welcome aboard. As David French (not to be confused with the present David, Kellogg) says, it's a very small group, and so we tend to indulge in too...
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Neil Forrest - IH Bar...
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Oct 5, 2000 11:26 am
Subject: Brazil Rain Forest Brazilian congress is now voting on a project that will reduce the amazon forest to 50% of its size. The area to be deforested is...
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sthornbury@...
Oct 5, 2000 6:02 pm
Hi all, I've come back from Mexico to find a pile of dogme (no pun) and have been wading through it. I thought we (i.e. the egroup) were on our last legs -...
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David Kellogg
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Oct 7, 2000 3:07 am
Scott: I thought I might make reply to Rinvolucri, as the TTSIG newsletter invites. Tell me what you think of this: A great deal of the attack (TTSIG 2/2000)...
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David Kellogg
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Oct 8, 2000 1:40 am
Scott: Thanks for reading--just wanted to check on the Rinvolucri reply. I'll bung in a slightly better version; it still reads a little densely to me, but I...
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sthornbury@...
Oct 8, 2000 8:16 am
I have no problem with Widdowson's "liberating" view of grammar - who wants to be shackled forever by pidgin and babytalk. I am simply suggesting that the...
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sthornbury@...
Oct 9, 2000 7:14 am
Those of you who might be interested in a dark family secret should have a look at this page on the Internet ...
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G Hall
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Oct 9, 2000 5:03 pm
Hi The work is piling up and the list is kicking off again - how to fit it all in? I've not read the latest batch in any detail, but am, of course, delighted ...
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G Hall
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Oct 10, 2000 3:48 pm
Hi Is it possible to 'dogmetise' when the class focus is EAP/academic writing skills? I've discussed this before, but thought I'd put up this afternoon's ...
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G Hall
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Oct 10, 2000 4:54 pm
Hi again, A couple of weeks ago DK wrote about a 'him, him, him' teacher, and noted ... on teacher talk and personal leadership and charm...< I agree with...
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G Hall
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Oct 10, 2000 6:34 pm
Hi again, David (K), I'm slowly making my way through your discussion of Allwright. You pull his argument, which I've always introduced in bits and pieces (and...
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G Hall
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Oct 10, 2000 6:56 pm
Hi, I haven't Scott's original, but DK's review and previous reading of/listening to Rinvolucri gave a reasonable flavour, and there's a couple of points that...
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David Kellogg
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Oct 10, 2000 11:24 pm
VERY briefly, Scott: What you say about deducing TB from PPP is absolutely true. But I deduced it not directly from PPP but rather from Brumfit's deep end...
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Scott Thornbury
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Oct 11, 2000 9:51 am
(posted from Australia, where Ive just landed - the first thing I did after buying shaving equipment was check my Dogme mail!)\\ Any last minute insights in...
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David Kellogg
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Oct 14, 2000 1:44 am
Graham: One of the great strengths of this list is that you can fly slightly outrageous arguments on it, without data tables and without footnotes. So I want...
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Dan
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Oct 16, 2000 7:51 am
Dear all, I'm sorry that I've been out of touch for so long and when I read David's question over whether or not the list may close down I felt even guiltier....
