Hi everybody. I haven't gotten around to reading any Van Lier yet, but these snippets that keep popping up on the dogme list are pure poetry. I must get hold...
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spanishsiesta
Aug 1, 2004 8:53 am
D Hogg recently wrote in a posting: "And I've handed out photocopies of Kumaravadivelu's comments on topic ... questioning" ... reasoning ... on ... Could you...
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Jane Arnold
blancuchi2002
Aug 1, 2004 5:55 pm
Something from Peter Grundy in Mario-Pilgrims HLT e-magazine that seems to me to have some very dogme implications. In case anyone needs some fairly extensive...
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Jane Arnold
blancuchi2002
Aug 1, 2004 6:23 pm
On a message I have just sent: Sorry that my knowledge of things technological is so limited - I copied something directly from the web and pasted it on a...
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davidhogg_bcn
Aug 1, 2004 6:39 pm
Good question. About six months ago, somebody around here posted a link to some website or other where a couple of chapters of a Kumaravadivelu book were free...
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Halima Brewer
halibrewer
Aug 1, 2004 8:33 pm
here it is again. Halima Jane Arnold <arnold@...> wrote: When I first began my teaching career in the late 1960's, methodologists believed that the...
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Luke Meddings
luke@...
Aug 1, 2004 10:15 pm
I suspect that some people find that planning a lesson helps them engage with the experience, whereas others feel that it is baffling and unengaging; in the...
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Jane Arnold
blancuchi2002
Aug 1, 2004 11:02 pm
I've been following - from a distance and not carefully enough - the discussion on lesson plans. Like most things in life, I don't think we can set down hard...
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Jane Arnold
blancuchi2002
Aug 1, 2004 11:09 pm
Thanks Halima for turning Peter Grundy's text into a more readable form (she is a whiz at these things, by the way). But in case anyone has missed what...
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Robert M. Haines
romiha1
Aug 2, 2004 12:12 am
Jane's posting of Peter Grundy's text was a pleasure to read after Halima's reformatting work. Thanks to all! The argument I heard ringing in my ears (devil on...
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Renata Suzuki
grankageva
Aug 2, 2004 2:52 am
Since it keeps getting quoted and I have the book on my knee right now, is the correct title not Interaction in the Language Curriculum, Leo van Lier Longman,...
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Robert M. Haines
romiha1
Aug 2, 2004 4:30 am
That's the one. It must be Scott's fault somehow ;-) Rob ... From: "Renata Suzuki" <renate@...> To: <dogme@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, August 01,...
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djn@...
dnewson2001
Aug 2, 2004 8:46 am
Thanks very much for the article, Jane - most interesting. All it needs is reformatting., But have you got the URL? I agree that the President of IATEFL comes...
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arnoldhk
wendyahk
Aug 2, 2004 9:33 am
Hi all Dennis, as ever well put ... I think you've scored a bulls eye! This is exactly the problem, these fabulous resources as the book you cited, are...
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Sue Murray
suemurrayit
Aug 2, 2004 11:28 am
hopefully the intro and first 2 chapters of Kumararavidelu's Beyond Methods are still available here: http://www.yale.edu/yup/chapters/095732chap.htm...
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Robert M. Haines
romiha1
Aug 2, 2004 5:07 pm
Dennis' questions remind me of something I think I once read that claims Anglo-based words like 'sisters' and 'elders' are easier for most North American...
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spanishsiesta
Aug 2, 2004 7:41 pm
for the Kumaravadivelu references. My name's Catherine, by the way, but if you want to call me 'Spanish' on the board, that's fine! Catherine...
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Robert M. Haines
romiha1
Aug 3, 2004 1:18 am
Last class today. My head is swimming, my heart is sinking. After taking photos, pulling down posters and saying goodbye, I stand in the metal doorway, flick...
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Robert M. Haines
romiha1
Aug 3, 2004 6:04 am
Here's more on motivation. Dig the Sioux legend at the intoduction! Rob http://abisamra03.tripod.com/motivation/ [Non-text portions of this message have been...
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davidhogg_bcn
Aug 3, 2004 6:36 pm
Yes, Rob. And that's probably a good yardstick for those fortunates among us who know the difference between the one and the other. I, however, am pathetic at...
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fiotf
Aug 4, 2004 12:31 am
Ah Rob, Machado. Because you can't just go in there and lecture grammar,no way. You're not like that, that's why you're here. Machado also went on to say that...
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Jane Arnold
blancuchi2002
Aug 5, 2004 8:41 am
Just came across the following in the book by Iranian exile Azar Nafisi "Reading Lolia in Tehran" As an ex-university professor (ex because she resigned from...
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Adrian Tennant
adriantennant
Aug 5, 2004 7:32 pm
Been on holiday!! So I've only just got to my 72 Dogme messages? I liked Diarmuid's questions and thought I'd read on ... but was struck by a few things Wendy...
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Adrian Tennant
adriantennant
Aug 5, 2004 7:55 pm
Dennis, Dennis, Dennis!!! Grammar - your hobby horse. One of the problems is the way YOU (and everyone else) defines grammar. You have one definition, but...
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Adrian Tennant
adriantennant
Aug 5, 2004 7:59 pm
... going to do. WHAT do you believe these folks > are going to gain from it? HOW can you justify that belief? Ah! These all focus on YOU the teacher. Why You...
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djn@...
dnewson2001
Aug 5, 2004 8:42 pm
O.K. Adrian. Of course you are right. Still I am going to go to a therapist and complain that no-one understands what I am on about when I start ranting. I...
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Adrian Tennant
adriantennant
Aug 5, 2004 10:03 pm
Hi Dennis, Maybe it's worth people stating what they mean by grammar. One of the problems with labels and jargon is that everyone assumes they are talking...
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Robert M. Haines
romiha1
Aug 5, 2004 11:48 pm
Okay, Mr. Smarty Pants, why don't you start by telling us what *you* mean by grammar ;-) Rob ... From: "Adrian Tennant" <adrian.tennant@...> To:...
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arnoldhk
wendyahk
Aug 6, 2004 12:22 am
Hi all Dr Evil you are somewhat of a tease or WHAT?????????? The obs/comments are useful to me 'cos they give me an indication that some of my aims of a...
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davidhogg_bcn
Aug 6, 2004 7:26 am
No, Adrian, you're very wrong about all that. None of these questions focuses on me/you the teacher, as far as I'm concerned. I wonder why you would...
