Barnaby asked me to post this message for him, as he's having trouble getting on to the group (anybody else having trouble???) (Barnaby, I've taken out all the...
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Luke Meddings
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Feb 6, 2001 10:14 am
Hi Barnaby This is great - interestingly, it explicitly hands over responsibility for starting to play (in our students' case in London, it would be speaking)...
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Luke Meddings
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Feb 6, 2001 10:22 am
Where do we stand on role play? Going back to the last e-mail, the powerful idea of putting yourself in the shoes of the participants and their hopes for a...
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Tom Walton
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Feb 6, 2001 11:36 am
Luke, I'd suggest that the imperative (like "Duck, everyone!") - rather than the present continuous - would be better for that one ;-)! Seriously, though,...
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Ruth Wajnryb
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Feb 6, 2001 7:55 pm
Luke Take your point - but when you condemn roleplay (is that what you're wanting to do?) in fact you are throwing out the baby (roleplay) with the bathwater ...
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Luke Meddings
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Feb 7, 2001 10:21 am
Hi Ruth I was genuinely asking what people thought, so thanks - I agree about babies and bathwater, and maybe the point is as you suggest to avoid programming...
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Jeremy Harmer
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Feb 7, 2001 2:54 pm
My favourite jazz experience - which sort of cuts across Dogme rules, I think - is of a band called The Mad Hatters which is run by an ex-parent at a secondary...
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Tom Walton
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Feb 7, 2001 3:42 pm
Maybe the answer to that, Jeremy, is that we should have dogme-days and non-dogme days, so that we cater for all and don't force a (what?) style (or method?)...
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kellogg59@...
Feb 14, 2001 5:00 am
On role play. Yes, I'll defend it. I'll defend it because I think that situational authenticity is, for some students at least, just as important as...
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kellogg59@...
Feb 16, 2001 1:04 am
(Ruth: Your mailing only just caught up with me. As I told you, we are being subjected to the same kind of harrassment by the police and the immigration...
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sthornbury@...
Feb 16, 2001 7:48 am
On role play: 15 years ago Michael Swan characterised coursebook “communication” as being of the type: “You are George – ask Mary what she does at...
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Tom Walton
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Feb 16, 2001 8:35 am
The mention of Penny Ur's "three possible sources and constituent parts of teaching expertise, which clearly lie outside the "t factor", to wit, training,...
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kellogg59@...
Feb 16, 2001 6:31 pm
"Interestingly" and "directly";. I'm not exactly sure what these two terms mean. The first is terribly subjective; even when everybody is interested in talking...
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Ruth Wajnryb
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Feb 16, 2001 8:57 pm
David please elaborate on what you mean by `compensatory' here - thanks and Scott, this word cantankerousness which has been a thread here for a while. I...
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kellogg59@...
Feb 17, 2001 7:13 am
Ruth: I am, not to put too fine a point on it, an awful slob. I am nevertheless able to find things in my office (when I have an office) fairly easily, often...
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sthornbury@...
Feb 17, 2001 7:57 am
Accidentally came across this on the web when looking for articles on the internet and education: New technology is revolutionising traditional teaching...
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Luke Meddings
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Feb 22, 2001 10:26 am
Hi folks Amused to find myself coming up with the silliest question - when I realised how silly it was we both laughed about it - when moving from an organic...
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Dan and Male
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Feb 22, 2001 10:41 pm
Dear All, I'm getting more and more anti-coursebooks although I can see that most would say that I'm getting anti bad coursebooks. I'm using English File and...
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sthornbury@...
Feb 24, 2001 3:34 pm
Dan's frustration with coursebooks is timely, catching me fresh from having written a riposte to Jeremy, for Modern English Teacher, and on the very day that...
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Ruth Wajnryb
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Feb 25, 2001 10:38 am
Scott this is wishful thinking/hoping I suspect. The industry is too big to roll over and die at the first shove. Real like doesn't happen like that... does ...
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sthornbury@...
Feb 25, 2001 9:11 pm
Ruth -I'm sure you are probably right - but I will be interested to see what response the ELT Journal article provokes. I suspect that there will be a feeling...
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kellogg59@...
Feb 26, 2001 5:04 am
Scott: Could you also post a precis or even an attachment of the MET "riposte to Jeremy" you mention? Thanks. Also: what is in the works for Brighton? Aren't...
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Ruth Wajnryb
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Feb 26, 2001 10:30 am
Scott well, Death & Taxes (I said that these were the only things that were certain in life, of course and everything else was full of jeopardy - as reflected...
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sthornbury@...
Feb 26, 2001 4:53 pm
The MET article hasn't yet been seen by Jeremy nor vetted by MET, so it's early days. I'll send you a copy (David) when it is ready. The IATEFL dogme gig is on...
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Jeremy Harmer
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Feb 26, 2001 6:50 pm
Dear all, well Scott accurately reports some of what was said in the ELTJ coursebook review article, but - and why not, after all? - it was just a touch...
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kellogg59@...
Feb 27, 2001 1:40 am
Jeremy: Aren't you confusing "classes" with "courses"? I don't think I have ever given a whole course of which I did not approve, though I have given my share...
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kellogg59@...
Mar 3, 2001 11:53 pm
All: You know those moments when the teacher says something like: Right! Now.... OK! Let's... And now for something completely different.... My hypothesis,...
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Ruth Wajnryb
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Mar 4, 2001 12:59 pm
David interesting .... but i'd hate it if the McNugget folk got their hands on discourse - then they could reduce it to the counterparts of `past simple' and...
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sthornbury@...
Mar 4, 2001 9:15 pm
Here's a neat dogme technqiue that I got froma plenary Luke Prodromou gave at a conference here this weekend. Students have slips of paper, on which they...
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kellogg59@...
Mar 5, 2001 10:29 am
Sent this earlier, but it didn't go for some reason. Trying again!) (Ruth: I'm back home and back in class, but unfortunately don't have an office yet and so...
