Dennis asked: So: is dogme practice also low-tech, learner-centred and learning/acquisition driven? Scott says: yes. Dennis, btw, somewhat belittles the impact...
Having failed utterly to find anyone willing to divulge the apparently closely guarded secrets of "the" FSI/ILR Oral Proficiency Interview, I am rapidly coming...
Scott wrote: "Dennis asked: So: is dogme practice also low-tech, learner-centred and learning/acquisition driven? Scott says: yes." Please expound. Rob ...
... Yes, Rob, that too. I see no contradiction in dogme being learning/acquisition driven ANd it emanating from the people in the room. It's BECAUSE it...
Yes, I think I should have written: My succint anwer is: Yes, and dogme is driven by the heat of the moment, emanating from the people in the room. ... From:...
Leni Dam has been (and remains) a big influence on teachers working consciously with autonomous learning in Poland, particularly members of the Teacher...
... Rob, I might have mis-explained what I meant by 'control' or 'out of our control'. I need to clarify them. When I said 'control' I don't mean the teacher ...
... learning/acquisition driven?" ... emanating from the people in >the room. I'd say both these 'definitions' fit the example Dennis quoted from Luke, and...
Güz, I think you expalined things very well before. It was I who didn't bother to think beyond my own definition of 'control'. I understand what you mean. ...
very nice example Guz. what I sometimes wonder is if it's not so much experience as training .... or rather, some of us have to relearn/retrain how to deal...
I agree with what Sue had to say about CELTA trainees feeling threatened by grammar and, therefore, grasping for McNuggets, which many text books seem to be...
Dear Professor Morrissey: I think you'll find that most dogmetics agree that the distinction you want to define does not exist. The "Commandments", which are...
Sue writes: "some of us have to relearn/retrain how to deal with a live (and living, rather than 'dead') classroom situation..." Isn't that one of the hardest...
Rob You seemed to be down on "teacher-centred" teaching. It is worth pointing you in the direction of SULLIVAN, P (2000). 'Playfulness as a mediation in...
Thanks to dk1 for his or her informative post (below, don't know why the ... lecturer, which in the German university system is a significantly lower rank. ...
Hi everyone, as you know, I have joined the group recently and I am trying to digest the discussions and have a better understanding and of course I am trying ...
Thank you for the reading tip, Diarmuid. I'll add it to my long list of 'things I should read when I'm done reading other stuff that I was suppossed to read...
I would set out to prove to the sts.... sorry, let the sts. discover how mistaken they probably are about their chances of success in passing the exams without...
The sts. could also proof my messages to this list for errors/mistakes/slips like 'their' for 'there'. ... From: Robert M. Haines <haines@...> To:...
... I've never thought of it this way - quite chilling; I thought the aim of a language test is (should be) to assess someone's language skills in an at least...
... I don't necessarily think so; I think the hardest thing can often be letting go of the negative control (as opposed to positive control as defined by Guz) ...
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May 3, 2003 9:15 am
As so often, Sue hits the nail on the head - ... like ... students) ... there'd ... This is what lies behind the dogme 'revelation' moment when this perverse ...
Sue and Luke. You've lost me, and I really, quite genuinely, no piss-taking, want to understand. Sue wrote: "some of us have to relearn/retrain how to deal...
... Dennis, I suppose what I mean is that it shouldn't be all that difficult to know when to listen and when to take part - it's only difficult perhaps when...
Thanks very much indeed for the clarification, Sue. I think what I found I was worrying about, specifically in the sort of period of discussion as encountered...
Sue, Rob, Etc. I would be curious to know at what level you and other dogme regular contributors teach ESL. I'll start. I teach adults, high beginner and...
