To all that commented on my posting: I feel sincerely humbled by your kind words. At the same time it was a feeling of exhilaration to watch them burn... I...
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Julian Bamford
julian12jp
Aug 4, 2003 2:26 am
I was watching a 1986 documentary about the French film director Francois Truffaut, who died in the early 80s. Two of his writers, Claude de Givray & Bernard...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Aug 4, 2003 3:33 am
Julian. Thanks for a thought-provoking piece. I'd think that you are right, that, in principle, anyone and everyone can learn a foreign language - or several....
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Simon Gill
pangill2001
Aug 4, 2003 12:01 pm
I tend to be a lurker on this list. On the few occasions when I do feel that I do have something to say I usually find that someone else does so before me and...
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Luke Meddings
luke@...
Aug 4, 2003 1:19 pm
I don't think this is necessarily weak dogme - it is context-sensitive and the idea of exploiting gateways (those moments familiar to teacher-trainers and...
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Dennis Newson
dnewson2001
Aug 4, 2003 3:47 pm
Spam avoidance is causing me to make alterations to my mailbox, and there will be chaos for 4-5 hours ........ at least. If anyone needs to contact me, write...
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Diarmuid Fogarty
Diarmuid_Fog...
Aug 4, 2003 4:30 pm
I've also been to the Guardian board and am disappointed, but not surprised, at the level of hostility. I think the hostility comes, as Luke said, from the...
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zosia grudzinska
zosienka46
Aug 5, 2003 9:26 am
Thanks, Julian - yu have managed to put so much in so few well-balanced words. Wish I had the gift of such succintness! In an earlier posting Rob was asking...
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David Hill
davidjwhill
Aug 5, 2003 2:14 pm
Hi y'all, I'm also mostly a lurker these days, but am intrigued by recent postings and analogies. On Truffaut: He did, evidently, learn English in the end, as...
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lifang67
Aug 6, 2003 1:19 am
Just a note on the scary textbooks, as I am on my way from here to there. It's scary, but not the way Dennis thinks it is. Dennis has posted a very long (and...
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sandra natalini ribeiro
sandranatalini
Aug 19, 2003 3:04 pm
Hi! I'm a new member to this group, joined in last Friday(15)and for some reason I can never see any new messages since then, although before August 5 there...
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Luke Meddings
luke@...
Aug 19, 2003 3:18 pm
Hi Sandra Welcome! Yes - it has gone a bit quiet... I was wondering what had happened, but your message proves there's still life out there. Perhaps it's just...
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haines@...
romiha1
Aug 19, 2003 4:34 pm
... Subject: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender From: MAILER-DAEMON@... (Mail Delivery System) Date: Tue, August 19, 2003 9:33 am To:...
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Robert Haines
romiha1
Aug 19, 2003 4:38 pm
As for my lack of postings, I simply haven't felt the muse come over me lately. But wait... here's something now: It's week four of the CELTA here, and the...
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zosia grudzinska
zosienka46
Aug 19, 2003 9:30 pm
... Actually it's given me chance to rifle through all the dogme archives - a task I have been planning for ages, since I started reading (and posting), so the...
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sandra natalini ribeiro
sandranatalini
Aug 20, 2003 1:32 am
Thanks to all the people that replied to my message. I, too, am happy to see there is life out there in spite of the heat (and THIS is supposed to be the...
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spanishsiesta
Aug 20, 2003 2:31 am
Hi Sandra, You aren't in Sao Paulo by any chance are you?...
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ilza
ilzanascimento
Aug 20, 2003 3:48 am
Hi, everyone! Sandra's message made me curious... Where are you in Brazil, Sandra? It's
been terribly cold here in Londrina, as well... Take care, Ilza. ...
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Luke Meddings
luke@...
Aug 20, 2003 9:45 am
A very interesting posting - particularly 'It seems to me it's more about ... We hear a lot about learning styles, but not so much about teaching styles - ie,...
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Newson, Dennis
dnewson2001
Aug 20, 2003 10:53 am
Luke wrote: "We hear a lot about learning styles, but not so much about teaching styles - ie, what the teacher's basic personality and expectations bring to...
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sandra natalini ribeiro
sandranatalini
Aug 20, 2003 2:43 pm
... BY ANY CHANCE, I AM! teaching in Santo Amaro region...How about you? Nice to know I'm not the only one from Brazil!...
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haines@...
romiha1
Aug 20, 2003 5:21 pm
Sandra wrote: "Well, this teacher of mine couldn't do the course; He was turned down because of language limitations, according to the institution that held...
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Barbara Dieu
bdieu2000
Aug 20, 2003 8:45 pm
TEACHING UNPLUGGED The "Dogme ELT" group, which is pledged to reinstating the learner in the space now colonised by the coursebook, has generated a lot of...
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Adrian Tennant
adriantennant
Aug 20, 2003 9:09 pm
... learner-centeredness ---the core of the CELTA in my view --- to further teaching practice and feedback? Why do they need to stamp fail on people's ...
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lifang67
Aug 21, 2003 6:29 am
It is the late nineteenth century, and Anne Sullivan, a young teacher who is almost blind herself, is trying to teach a little blind and deaf girl called...
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John Moorcroft
johnm61fr
Aug 21, 2003 7:13 am
re .... "time is not on a trainees side". anyone have experience of the different development of trainees on part-time and full-time courses? I have always...
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Adrian Tennant
adriantennant
Aug 21, 2003 7:38 am
Hi John, I work on both he 'intensive' 4 week course and a part-time 25 week course. The 2 suit different people. Some people loose focus over 25 weeks and...
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John Moorcroft
johnm61fr
Aug 21, 2003 8:15 am
I was wondering whether the 25 weeker allowed the trainee to bring more of their own beliefs, personality and materials into their teaching while still ...
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Adrian Tennant
adriantennant
Aug 21, 2003 9:24 am
John, Not in my experience. There seem to be three outcomes: 1. Some flourish having time to think about input and putting this into practice in their TP. 2....
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zosia grudzinska
zosienka46
Aug 21, 2003 6:10 pm
The discussion touches on the point which used to worry me for some years, that is - how passionate a teacher could/should be, how much is allowed do "unleash...
