Perhaps I can smuggle in a comment on 'grammar' here rather than giving a new subject and producing a groan of "Oh No!" around the dogme world... I'm struck...
I think the major publishers have a lot to answer for here, in that they tend to expect and demand that their coursebooks keep grammar to the fore. Then we ...
Here's a thought. The vast majority of teachers - for one reason or the other - seem locked into the kind of grammar MacNuggets paradigm that Robert (among...
A book that gathers a lot of this stuff re: language acquisition in children/case studies of 'feral children'/'talking' primates etc is 'The Articulate Mammal'...
... Hey Scott, since this is my first year of EFL, I don't know the market that well (though I did see in our university library that you authored a coursebook...
Steven asks: "But I've got a gut feeling somewhere that a dogme coursebook would come with a thin handbook, right?" Steven, In a discussion last year about the...
Critical Period Hypothesis seems to ring a bell, as Pavlov may have said... ... _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail...
Can't we just sit at home in the lotus position, thinking dogme thoughts that eventually permeate the collective consciousness of the universe? What's with all...
... It's the Insane Clown Posse, and hostility towards everything is their trademark... Some audience seems to enjoy the Posse pouring lemonade over the...
I'm a virgo, a moderator of x lists, I studied history and was told to care about documentation.. Before we go any further in our initial brain-storming for...
Thanks for reminding me how hip I am not, Steven. ;-) I'll bet The Ramones poured lemonade over fans' heads first though. Rob ... From: Steven Ceuppens...
Can we all go easy on the one-liners: I keep getting complaints from people that their emails are full of dogme trivia. It seems it's either that or...
As an aside, I once mentioned to some upper-intermediate students how I cope when talking to native Spanish speakers: sometimes all I understand is a couple of...
An interesting idea, but I'm not convinced that a dogme textbook is going to do it. Part of my CELTA course involved evaluating material; if the course...
... grammar ... on ... on the ... the ... With regard mistakes what about reformulation. Which I use a lot in my dogmetic classes. When trainign in error...
The whole idea of a dogme coursebook is decidedly dodgy to me. It's a bit like the idea that you only destroy the parliamentary system by taking part in it; or...
I agree what Rob W said about change being apparent - I've certainly seen big changes in attitudes and practices over recent years - without throwing the baby...
(re Iain's point): and when we guess, we often go for the odds-on from experience where applicable - eg, if in a classroom, and teacher puts student utterances...
Well, lots of issues here, ... (students & teacher). But it's of no use to other classes and of little use to the same class (it's really a very 'Here and Now'...
this doesn't really answer your points Shaun, but what I find - though I'm talking small (max. 12 students) classes (dogme has many forms) - is that *most* of...
Well, I agree with Adrian, Scott and Diarmuid all at the same time! Have my cake and eat it. I agree that a dogme coursebook sounds like a contradiction in...
Yesterday in Elementary English Education we were studying counting rhymes. You know, the things kids use to decide who is going to be "it". Eenie, meenie,...
I realize that some people are objecting (to Scott) to MY mails, as well as to Rob's pouring lemonade all over everybody. My suggestion is to go to the Yahoo...
- Sorry Fiona I can't see that evenly the nicely packaged with some good listening English File, could possibly be entertained by a dogme teacher. The McNugget...
... He must be the most quoted person on the planet. He doesn't really answer the point I raised. What shuts down? Is it a LAD or is it a type of general...
Until the rules we've agreed to are changed or I'm booted off the list, I'll write what I feel is appropriate. If this causes problems for people, they should...
The slide show/lecture on Nicaragua was interesting and informative. It was a treat for the stronger student to face the challenge of listening to a...
