I have some trouble sending things from my old account. I am trying again from a different account. Richard: Yesterday I tried out a rather adulterated,...
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Richard Samson
rsamson@...
Nov 7, 2000 5:40 pm
Hi, David, Ruth, other readers, Tuning in again. Sorry, but I can't possibly devote the time that all this merits. Dave, your postings I find very challenging...
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Richard Samson
rsamson@...
Nov 7, 2000 5:40 pm
Here's another CI idea for anybody to try: Have you ever played a memory game which involves remembering all the turns of a free conversation between various...
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sthornbury@...
Nov 7, 2000 6:23 pm
Richard, I love it. Undiluted, quintessential, A-grade dogme. Thanks. S....
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Dan
dan_humm@...
Nov 8, 2000 12:30 pm
Dear All, This is what we need more of and not pages and pages of theory and name dropping. I was thinking this morning of setting up a subdivision in the...
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Dan
dan_humm@...
Nov 8, 2000 12:40 pm
Dear David K, I'm sorry that it has taken so long to get back to your message but to be honest I find your messages a little intimidating due to their sheer ...
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kellogg
kellogg@...
Nov 11, 2000 12:32 am
Dan: I agree completely with what you said about people being put off by labels like pre-intermediate and intermediate, and also with what you said about the...
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Dan
dan_humm@...
Nov 13, 2000 12:33 pm
Dear David, Thank-you for your uncharacteristically concise response. I think that really it is a quantative difference between the theory of Dogme and the...
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o.alexander@...
Nov 13, 2000 1:53 pm
I've just joined this group as a result of an inspirational workshop given by Scott Thornbury at the TESOL Scotland conference on 11th November. I'd like to...
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Ruth Wajnryb
rwajnryb@...
Nov 14, 2000 11:01 am
this is in response to 0.alexander (what's the O stand for?) Scott deems to wander round the world giving inspiring sessions wherever he goes. this idea that...
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Olwyn Alexander
o.alexander@...
Nov 14, 2000 1:27 pm
Hi Ruth, On Tue, 14 Nov 2000 21:51:32 +1100 Ruth Wajnryb ... The O stands for Olwyn (a female not a male name btw) ... I tried to match the answer with the...
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David French
david@...
Nov 15, 2000 6:26 pm
I've been interested reading about Olwyn's writing class. Sounds solid-gold dogme to me. The drive is their interest in you, that fuels their communication....
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Luke Meddings
luke@...
Nov 16, 2000 9:57 am
Hi David Just working on a few lines for the seminar tonight (I'm looking forward to it so much it'll probably be cancelled) when I read this. What you say...
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Luke Meddings
luke@...
Nov 16, 2000 11:26 am
... An additional comment - what we are advocating, as summarised above, is not unique in turning what remains ELT convention on its head (we're saying...
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G Hall
g.hall@...
Nov 16, 2000 4:15 pm
Hi I have an extremely lively class of 25 mainly Europeans with one or two Chinese. The level is pretty high - they are all extremely fluent, and although...
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G Hall
g.hall@...
Nov 16, 2000 4:19 pm
Hi again, I'm trying to keep them short (I'm not so sure about the sweet). Certain trends/language weaknesses have emerged throughout the semester with the...
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G Hall
g.hall@...
Nov 16, 2000 5:08 pm
Hi Olwyn, ... Yes, to both of these things. At the moment I'm thinking how I might use something similar with a class of computing and electrical engineers. I...
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G Hall
g.hall@...
Nov 16, 2000 5:22 pm
Hi I was just thinking about the issue of focusing on the languge and worrying that my recent lack of contributions and, therefore, feedback has led me to be a...
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Reuben Woolley
rwoolley@...
Nov 16, 2000 6:50 pm
... De: Reuben Woolley <rwoolley@...> Para: dogme@eGroups.com <dogme@eGroups.com> Fecha: jueves 16 de noviembre de 2000 19:42 Asunto: re: Questions...
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Reuben Woolley
rwoolley@...
Nov 16, 2000 6:50 pm
Hi everyone, Just want to pick up on something in the mails from David and Luke, in particular the idea of giving the students false ideas about ourselves. I...
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sthornbury@...
Nov 17, 2000 8:04 am
I got this email from a friend who is a DoS at the British Council here, with regard to candidates of theirs who are doing the Diploma course with us... "I...
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G Hall
g.hall@...
Nov 17, 2000 9:51 am
Hi Reuben wrote of the problem in the traditional classroom situation... ... is what happened to us when we were students and we think that is the only way...
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Olwyn Alexander
o.alexander@...
Nov 17, 2000 12:03 pm
I was intrigued by Reuben's idea of memebership categories to balance the teacher/student relationship. ... I have an exercise I use with classes I teach...
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Olwyn Alexander
o.alexander@...
Nov 17, 2000 12:17 pm
... and ... It seems to me there's a tension between needing to give teacher trainees some confidence that they can handle the complex situation that a...
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Karl Kaliski
kkaliski@...
Nov 17, 2000 5:24 pm
Dear Olwyn, Hi. Although a member of the Dogme group I've been pretty quiet of late and trying to catch up on all the old e-mails and keep the day job going! ...
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Ruth Wajnryb
rwajnryb@...
Nov 17, 2000 8:44 pm
Hi people I'm going to be talking to a group of teachers next week about dogme practice. I've done this before with them on teaching practices which are ...
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Ruth Wajnryb
rwajnryb@...
Nov 17, 2000 9:59 pm
Dear Olwyn sorry it's been a few days... I have gone over your answers to my questions and I love the idea - it has a lot of the elements of Dictogloss but is...
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Ruth Wajnryb
rwajnryb@...
Nov 18, 2000 10:26 am
Hi on member categories - I am familiar with some local research (by Alison Rochford, Sydney) which tracks the kind of discourse patterns in EFL classrooms,...
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Olwyn Alexander
o.alexander@...
Nov 19, 2000 3:26 pm
Dear Ruth, You were asking about my dogme lesson: one bit in your answers that i did not understand: i understood that when you gave them an hour for ...
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David French
david@...
Nov 19, 2000 3:43 pm
It's amazing to see such a flurry of correspondence. Superb quality and quantity. There is no way I can read it all thoroughly. I think I'd better wait until...
