Hi Jenny "It just sounds like common sense teaching to me". Well, that's as good a description of dogme as anything else. "So, what makes you new?" Nothing....
... good a description of dogme as anything else. "So, what makes you new?" Nothing. "So, why bother?" Why not? Indeed, and I do. We Hong Kong NETs are all...
There is a fascinating article on differentiation in the language learning classroom at: http://www.countryschool.com/ylsig/events/Westwood.htm This is the...
Not for the first time, I was click-happy and sent off my last message too soon. Those of you who have already located it will find that it is an article about...
According to a letter in today's El Pais, Günter Grass has recently written an article in which he bemoans the fact that, in schools in poor and marginalised...
... Blame the bosses who employ them. Blame the bosses for paying low wages. Blame the bosses who have lower standards (diplomatically put). ... employment is...
...Trying to track this article, Scott. By coincidence we are going tomorrow afternoon to the tiny town of Gildehaus on the Dutch border where there is an...
Hello, I would be very interested in reading this article myself. Perhaps, if it can be found, it could be distributed to this group? The subject of computers...
In case you are wondering, I've done the obvious i.e. used the German Google, but found nothing. More news tomorrow. Dennis -- Dennis Newson Moderator An...
... anything from a coursebook. This is at least partly to ... many of them. This is a sorry state if coursebooks can't contain something motivating and ...
... often run for Headway et al. in search of the 'right' > way to present and explain grammar. And many CELTA courses don't help the trainees with grammar. ...
... get through' being a common response. I'm all for ... reliance on (often irrelevant and boring) coursebook ... Ah! But surely that's the problem. It is...
I know I'm a few days late but I've been away. The whole s*** about native non-native gets to me - sorry Dennis but this is one of my hobby-horses. I still...
... speaker because that is the ideal for the ... Who the hell decides what's pure? + most students will end up speaking to other *non-native* speakers and ...
The distinction between good and bad teachers is much like the line some of us might needlessly draw between L1 and L2 (along with L3 and so on). Instead of...
An excellent book that fits the dogme criteria I think is _The Art and Science of Learning Languages_, by Amorey Gethin and Erik V. Gunnemark. (Intellect,...
Hello fellow teachers: I am in desperate need of two books which seem to be available only in Estonia or Russia. If you can help me find them, I'll repay you...
dk writes " the NLPist believes, or pretends to believe, that in so doing [i.e. "putting people on the spot"] he/she is not powertripping but rather...
Isn't that one of the biggest challenges facing the practicing dogmetist as well, i.e. how to treat every student as an individual? It's certainly the first...
There is a journal on the topic of swearing, called "Maledicta", which is a goldmine of information on imprecation generally and on the cross-cultural and even...
or merely the margin of the lesson. ... Eggins. ..... Phew! I feel like I'm doing my masters all over again.... I have a 2 year old and a 6 year old, and I...
Isn't it difficult to generalise about "pedagogical interaction" out of context? For a start, class numbers make a difference, as has been pointed out. Not to...
Jenny As a person who remains to be convinced, you bring this list a breath of fresh air. Stay around and stay "curious"- it'll do us good. As far as the...
Whilst I am sure that Scott's posting about NLP and CA was interesting, I guess you need to know a little bit more about CA if you're going to understand it....
Rob quotes a question he is often asked: "How can you address the needs of each student by having a conversation? Some of them won't talk unless you ask them...
Hi, Jenny at al, Your description of HK teaching environment sounds pure hell and curiously, I have been getting desperate letters from another teacher friend...
The whole thread makes me long to put the backpack on and set off across the wide wide world - teaching whichever language comes handy. There's English, ...
Just to facilitate my understanding of the thread an other dogme discussions - what is the definition of "referential" question again? I do understand, thanks...
... You asked for it, D. (This is a LONG posting - read at your peril). Conversation analysis (CA), through rigorous analysis of utterance- by-utterance...
... dogmetist as well, i.e. how to treat every student as an individual? It's certainly the first criticism I hear when I mention dogme: "How can you address...
