CETEFL, TTEdSIG & Dogme Thanks to Dominic of gisig for bringing to our attention an article in today's Daily Telegraph. ... Can teach, will travel (Filed:...
(TTEdSIG & dogme) Will Bill's permission, I am forwarding the message below, because of its intrinic interest, but also because of its reference to dogme. I've...
Dear dogme friends, I am doing my first MA assignment on the usefulness of blogs as a research tool for teacher use of motivational strategies in the...
After the break, we had a spelling bee of sorts, with two teams taking turns to spell some of the content words from the pinata text, especially the ones that...
Today's class included the following task (apologies to Dennis in advance for potentially nudging him to saddle up one of his hobby horses): I handed out a...
I remember reading about this some time ago - how "hole-in-the-wall" computers were set up in Indian villages and the kids simply taught themsleves how to use...
I suspect that, as with dogme, many people have been doing MIE for years without realising it or without giving it that name. I recall one video of a TEFL...
There could of course be issues related to power why this MIE prescription is not followed but education within a domestic context and domestic aspects of many...
Thanks Scott for posting this. You feel Minimally Invasive Education (MIE) is very suggestive from a dogme point of view, and ask how MIE might apply to...
... I put a computer in my kids room and they have taught themselves how to use it for what they want to do. This has not pervented them from getting poor...
Julian's take on MIE is spot on. Without using the word, he describes how teachers exploit the "affordances" in the classroom ecology, how language is "offered...
Last Friday, I was explaining the contents of the weekly quiz to everyone. Along the way, I reminded students to write 'T' for true, not 'V' (Spanish...
I request the help of the U.S. and Taiwanese government to search for Alaskan Fredryk Frontier who disappeared in Taiwan on May 23, 2003. Hired by the Hess...
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Luke Meddings
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May 10, 2004 9:51 am
Wow - a very bracing couple of threads to start the week. Scott's posting on MIE fascinating, Julian's summary of its relevance to dogme and vice versa superb....
Scott's questions: "What coursebook provides a rich 'semiotic budget'?? And, in the absence of the kind of motivation the children in Indian villages might...
"When one partner is more knowledgeable than another or others, as is the case in the teacher-student relationship, this process [*intersubjectivity*] often...
I've just visited link again to the hole-in-the-wall experiments in India . What I'd find interesting would be for us to examine the EXTENT.that MIE can be...
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I would have thought that dogme had a large enough membership. Do we really need to resort to this to get bigger? Anyway, does size really matter? [Non-text...
Hi there, I'm sorry if this has been posted/discussed already on the forum (if so please tell me where to look), but I was wondering whether anyone can tell me...
If I've already written to the list about Adam and Eve, forgive me. Adam and Eve was my favourite language program for years. It was created by Prof. Dr....
Mathew, a quikc cut-and-paste job from something I wrote for the ... tense, outnumbering past tense forms by roughly four to one. Continuous forms (she is...
To add a line to what Scott has written regarding the relative infrequency of the Present Continuous in conversations recent corpora data indicates that since...
Take the word "contemporise". Please, take it (boom boom). One of my students recently asked about this word that she had chanced across in her electronic...
Diarmuid, This is what my OED on CD-ROM says: contemporize (k@n"tEmp@raIz), v. Rarely in 9 cot-. [f. as L. contempor-aŽre (see contemporate) + -ize.] 1....
My Collins dictionary also gives only the verb form "To make something contemproary; to synchronise". It's curious then that all of the web-based dictionaries...
Dear Mat, I sometimes wonder what is meant by the 'present simple'. Does the frequency count just include the form or the one function. The form of the ...
