A happy new year to everyone! I enjoyed Dan's words about 'el Don'. I agree completely that we shouldn't promote the super teacher. My point was only that some...
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sthornbury@...
Jan 6, 2001 6:36 pm
Just happen to be flicking through a new adult coursebook (pre-int, published 2000): Cover blurb: "It combines a strong grammar syllabus with a contemporary...
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Ruth Wajnryb
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Jan 7, 2001 3:50 am
Happy New Year to everyone I've only just had time to look at some `dogmemails' from late dec - this one from Scott made me think: Scott cites a reviewer who...
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kellogg59@...
Jan 8, 2001 9:39 pm
Dan: As we all know, you learn more about discourse when you participate in it. You listen more when you are going to make reply, and you read better if you...
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Ruth Wajnryb
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Jan 10, 2001 10:31 am
Hi David Thank you for your long message. An interesting read. But how does your Korean teacher fit with your theory about the social attractiveness etc of ...
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kellogg59@...
Jan 10, 2001 3:41 pm
Ruth: Sorry about that. Once again I cut too deep, concision vs. clarity. Earlier on the list, we talked about the problem of "level", and I argued that...
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Luke Meddings
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Jan 10, 2001 6:12 pm
... This is a very improving approach indeed. Reading better is a strange concept, like walking better. ... Do you want a reading of this message? I think you...
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Ruth Wajnryb
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Jan 10, 2001 11:18 pm
David more on this special teacher quality phenomenon - are you familiar with Penny Ur's research on this? It was an IATEFL plenary address (a couple of years...
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sthornbury@...
Jan 11, 2001 8:06 am
I'd like to cut and paste Luke's last comment, just in case anyone missed it, and then post something one of the Dogme filmmakers said (from the book "The name...
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kellogg59@...
Jan 11, 2001 3:27 pm
Luke: No, I don't (condemn people for reacting). I simply react to the reaction. Fair enough? I co-taught with Mr. Seo (the Korean teacher) for a year and a ...
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Ruth Wajnryb
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Jan 12, 2001 10:13 am
David re Penny Ur - give me your address and I'll mail it to you ah, not pure altruisim --> wanna send me the jizz one and maybe Scott's Not Being Dangerous,...
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kellogg59@...
Jan 19, 2001 10:42 pm
Here is another quote, slightly doctored: "All these establishments with their excellent heating systems, their pretty lighting, their appetite for large sums...
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kellogg59@...
Jan 19, 2001 10:53 pm
All: I'm currently unemployed, and so preparing another tome for deskdrawer publishing. This one is a treatise on teacher training, and I found myself writing...
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Olwyn Alexander
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Jan 20, 2001 12:10 pm
Happy new year to all. I haven't been here (where exactly?) for a while because the start of my term is a particularly fraught time for me. I work in a unit...
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Ruth Wajnryb
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Jan 20, 2001 9:50 pm
Dear Olwyn Probably, purist dogme would forbid the import of peevishness into the c'room. And I must admit that an ethical side of me likes to keep my ...
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sthornbury@...
Jan 21, 2001 10:08 am
Some initial thoughts on dogme and children - not an area I have any authority in - but when did that ever stop me? I think it would be misleading to set up a...
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sthornbury@...
Jan 21, 2001 10:08 am
Happy New Year to you Olwyn. On pre-selected grammar items: it seems your lesson is perfectly consistent with "Rule 6". It's not that grammar should not be...
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Olwyn Alexander
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Jan 21, 2001 11:40 am
Scott, I'm very happy to be quoted and don't mind both my names being used but perhaps you have a reason for only wanting to use my first name? Can I see a ...
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sthornbury@...
Jan 21, 2001 1:41 pm
Thanks Olwyn. No reason not to use full name - just a rather informal article where - to give the flavour of the discussion group - first names only seemed...
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Olwyn Alexander
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Jan 21, 2001 8:06 pm
Scott, Come to think of it 'the sainted Sylvia' did seem a bit over the top in praise of an ordinary group member :-) In fact I have read Teacher but some ...
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Ruth Wajnryb
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Jan 21, 2001 8:27 pm
well, I don't know Scott... carving skulls out of soap may actually say a lot about your inner story :-) Ruth ... From: dogme@egroups.com <dogme@egroups.com> ...
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kellogg
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Jan 22, 2001 5:08 am
All: I would appreciate some advice. I'm laying out the chapters for my teacher training tome. It's actually a standard sort of "do and discuss" kind of thing,...
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Luke Meddings
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Jan 22, 2001 10:24 am
... Ideal: Teacher and students agree a format for a report which is then filled in (either by the teacher during the lesson, or by a/the student/s before the...
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Tom Walton
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Jan 22, 2001 10:53 am
As a trainer and a trainee, I'd prefer the single book format. Martin Parrott's "Tasks for Language Teachers" uses this and it is a format I have found useful...
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Graham S Hall
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Jan 22, 2001 3:42 pm
Hi Scott, Still here, still interested, still reading. No problems with the quoting. Cheers Graham ... From: sthornbury@......
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Luke Meddings
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Jan 22, 2001 6:44 pm
Dear all Can I suggest that we stop using Peevishness as the subject for our messages? Otherwise we will become known for it, and peevish people using search...
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sthornbury@...
Jan 22, 2001 10:13 pm
Yeah -who started this "peevishness" thing anyway? Own up....
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Ruth Wajnryb
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Jan 22, 2001 11:40 pm
David re your trainer's book I have to say that I find Parrott's book a pain to use, though when I force myself to struggle with it, I'm usually rewarded - but...
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kellogg59@...
Jan 23, 2001 4:20 am
Ruth: I too am a great fan of Penny Ur: I thought her book was really the first "post-eclectic" book I'd ever read; a book which really tries to make a...
