For some time I have remained a silent dogme-tist; heaps to do, veery unwise - I should be the one to teach how NOT to organise one's life... anyway, in spite...
Hi Zosia - I was just thinking how some of the more cherished names had gone quiet- as far as I am concerned, you are more than welcome to quote any of the...
Hi Julian, I'd like to receive a copy of your 10 ideas for reading aloud if possible. Is it something you can send by email or will you need to post it?...
Just an aside re reading aloud. a group of 16 youngsters, quite eager to learn, having been with me for some four or five years, the last one and a half...
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Jennifer Wallace
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Oct 1, 2004 7:07 pm
Can i thank people very much for their responses to my request for thoughts about this. I'm quite inspired by all the positive thoughts to re-think my ...
Hello everyone. I joined this group a few weeks ago and I am learning a great deal from all of you. I recently passed a part-time CELTA course, but am still...
unfortunately (or probably fortunately!) I don't have a spare week to try and put into words my own views on all this; and there are so many aspects and...
Helen, thanks for raising this fundamental issue. It's one which students ALWAYS ALWAYS raise; (teachers perhaps less so?) Some of my colleagues say they...
(Like Sue I've been catching up ... in my case on a whole month's absence, in Middle Earth, as it happens). I have a deep affection for reading aloud, for...
What I've noticed in my "mixed ability" class of twenty Spanish speakers is that I can usually use eye contact to help me guage my language in the ways Sue has...
... OUi ! (I agree) But in my language classroom, provided the language abilities of the class are homogeneous, I try to speak in a "pedagogic natural way". I...
Like Marianne, I deliberately slow down for beginners, also because I often use a little, split second, thinking time before I speak in order to 'monitor' what...
Some of this talk about slowing down etc worries me. I've yet to meet anyone who can slow down their speech and keep it natural. The other issue with TT is the...
What is 'natural' though? Certainly not, for me, trying to have a conversation with a beginning learner as if s/he were a since-childhood friend; and...
Hi Sue, Yes I disagree. Are all your conversations with all your friends the same? Don't you modify the language you use (naturally) depending whom you are ...
Dear Dr E, completely agree about amount and quality, and that we modify language according to the situation; and maybe speed is more accurately a function of...
Sue wrote: "'please speak more slowly': a way of saying, speak more clearly, give me time to think, and don't use too many words??" ******************* Yes,...
Peter, how did that first lesson with the "beginners" go? Tim, what is your response to Adrian's, a.k.a. Dr. Evil's, comments on error correction? Trying to...
Thanks for enquiring how the class went! Well, there were six uniformed soldiers in a huge military classroom. Got them all in a circle... 1) Once established...
Peter, Yes, please do keep us informed how things are progressing. I found your brief account very interesting. Having been thrown back to the...
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Luke Meddings
luke@...
Oct 6, 2004 10:35 am
I think what's important with beginners is to say things which are relevant - to basically say the absolute heart of what needs to be said about them, oneself...
Peter, Getting six uniformed soldiers in a circle instead of line formation might be a feat in iteself ;-) I have some questions about the lesson, which I...
I need to devise a workheet at intermediate level + to help monolingual learners use a dictionary and develop an awareness and give practice in a useful...
Why are you devising it? Why not get the learners to do it for each other? They must have used a dictionary before! Dr Evil ... [Non-text portions of this...
At the beginning of class, I asked students what they wanted to learn in class today. One by one, they began volunteering things like: When to use 'start' and...
Hi Monica I have recently done the following and it seemed to work: If you teach theme based lessons, choose a 9 letter word related to your theme (I chose...
Dear Diarmuid: The lesson sounds ineresting. Thank you for sharing it with me. I will use it in my class next week. Thank you again. Monica ... From:...
I'm devising this to help learners focus on specif lexis that could cause problems to them. It's a way to help them become independent learners. ... From:...
Hi Monica, You wrote in reply to my suggestion that youy get students to write the ... cause problems to them. It's a way to help them become independent ...
