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
rwajnryb@...
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...
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Ruth Wajnryb
rwajnryb@...
Mar 5, 2001 8:46 pm
can I suggest Sydney as a venue? - sorry, joke. Ruth ... From: dogme@yahoogroups.com <dogme@yahoogroups.com> To: dogme@yahoogroups.com <dogme@yahoogroups.com> ...
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sthornbury@...
Mar 7, 2001 5:56 pm
Lucy Norris (IH Madrid) has done an interesting thing. With a Cambridge Proficiency class of hers she introduced the Dogme theme with reference to the films -...
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Dan and Male
maledan@...
Mar 7, 2001 6:50 pm
Dear All, I just read DK's piece about discourse units and I think I just got the idea of Anybody, Somebody and Everybody at last. I wrote a while back about...
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kellogg59@...
Mar 8, 2001 7:31 am
All: Yes, I think the recording and contemplation of classroom discourse IS a central element of dogme; and that brings me to my other schtick (not...
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Ruth Wajnryb
rwajnryb@...
Mar 8, 2001 11:10 am
scott on an unrelated topic: you mention a technique for focus groups - can you elaborate on that for me? I'm running a focus group next week and other than ...
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sthornbury@...
Mar 8, 2001 1:17 pm
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sthornbury@...
Mar 8, 2001 4:11 pm
Anyoen esle able to answer Ruth's question on ways of running focus groups? Lucy's verbatim description of her class goes like this: - lead-in - group told...
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billharris@...
Mar 8, 2001 6:21 pm
A quick hello from Bill Harris teaching at ITTI Embassy Hastings. I caught Scott and Luke unplugged at the IH London TT conference and promised to join the...
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Luke Meddings
luke@...
Mar 8, 2001 6:47 pm
Hi Bill It was nice meeting you at ih, good to have you aboard - particularly as like many of us on the site you've been experimenting and working like this...
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sthornbury@...
Mar 8, 2001 7:20 pm
Welcome on board Bill. Your mention of "a trip to the computer room" reminds me of the time I took my teen age class to the computer room only to find that...
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Olwyn Alexander
o.alexander@...
Mar 8, 2001 9:27 pm
Hi Scott and everyone, Yes I'm still here but submerged under a pile of essays with no time to make profound comments for the discussion. However, I'm spurred...
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sthornbury@...
Mar 8, 2001 10:15 pm
Point taken, Olwyn. There could be no more "emergent"; phenomenon than *this* discussion group, for example. I suppose the challenge is in how you set it up and...
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Ruth Wajnryb
rwajnryb@...
Mar 9, 2001 9:21 pm
thanks scott for the info I sought for the focus group - very helpful re talk and spontoneity and computer rooms - my suspicion is that students like the...
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kellogg59@...
Mar 12, 2001 5:20 am
When Van Lier was here giving his "ecological approach" talk he actually began the talk with two contrasting pictures. One showed one child sitting at a...
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Olwyn Alexander
o.alexander@...
Mar 12, 2001 8:53 am
But in this dogme discussion group the computer isn't a drill master, it's a way for us to communicate together, to form a virtual community, even though we're...
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kellogg59@...
Mar 12, 2001 10:46 am
Olwyn: Your response is a good example of why computer interaction is no substitute for face-to-face (or vice versa, as I'll get to in a moment), and why I...
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billharris@...
Mar 12, 2001 7:12 pm
Thanks Scott and Luke for your quick response... weird to bump into into the real Scott in HIS computer room soon after he'd been in e communication with me! ...
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Jeremy Harmer
jeremy.harmer@...
Mar 13, 2001 12:51 pm
Dear all, I've been pondering the comments of the CPE students and Scott's response to them. A lot of what he says strikes a chord with me (the weight of past ...
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kellogg59@...
Mar 14, 2001 11:23 pm
... can help ... DOES THIS MATERIAL BECOME 'OURS' IF NOT THROUGH INTERACTION? ... learners ... PEOPLE ACQUIRE LANGUAGE THROUGH EXPOSURE, OR DOES IT REQUIRE ...
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Dan and Male
maledan@...
Mar 15, 2001 9:33 pm
Dear All, This is such a catchy title I couldn't ignore it. I've left DK's questions in but I've answered the ones I thought needed answering and added some ...
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lnorris@...
Mar 16, 2001 7:11 pm
My CPE students seem to have provoked a nice, healthy stir, & after much lurking I have decided to come out and post(cybernetically? virtually?)! I am the...
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lnorris@...
Mar 16, 2001 7:11 pm
My CPE students seem to have provoked a nice, healthy stir, & after much lurking I have decided to come out and post(cybernetically? virtually?)! I am the...
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Luke Meddings
luke@...
Mar 17, 2001 10:51 am
Lucy, this is so great - it once again proves there is a history to dogme ELT that this site is helping to piece together, and it tackles in very real terms a...
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Olwyn Alexander
o.alexander@...
Mar 19, 2001 8:36 am
... used in a class for another day but I never use them, I've learned that the beauty is in the moment, it never really translates to another...
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Luke Meddings
luke@...
Mar 19, 2001 4:49 pm
... How nice to be called macho after all these years. However, this is not posturing. I am not saying that I do not repeat lessons on principle, just that my...
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Dan and Male
maledan@...
Mar 19, 2001 10:07 pm
Dear all, I was thinking in a lesson of an important and perhaps flaw in the Dogme system. In a standard class as the grammar examples are decided beforehand,...
