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...
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Diarmuid Fogarty
Diarmuid_Fog...
Oct 1, 2004 10:28 am
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...
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spanishsiesta
Oct 1, 2004 3:54 pm
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?...
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zosia grudzinska
zosienka46
Oct 1, 2004 4:56 pm
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
wallacejennifer@...
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 ...
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helenwest1@...
helenwest1
Oct 1, 2004 7:07 pm
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...
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Sue Murray
suemurrayit
Oct 1, 2004 9:11 pm
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...
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Sue Murray
suemurrayit
Oct 1, 2004 10:13 pm
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...
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scott_thornbury
Oct 2, 2004 5:00 am
(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...
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Robert M. Haines
romiha1
Oct 2, 2004 5:16 am
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...
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Marianne Dorléac
marianne_dor...
Oct 2, 2004 11:59 am
... 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...
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Sue Murray
suemurrayit
Oct 2, 2004 2:02 pm
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...
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Adrian Tennant
adriantennant
Oct 2, 2004 7:11 pm
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...
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Sue Murray
suemurrayit
Oct 2, 2004 8:44 pm
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...
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Adrian Tennant
adriantennant
Oct 2, 2004 9:11 pm
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 ...
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Sue Murray
suemurrayit
Oct 3, 2004 1:30 pm
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...
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Robert M. Haines
romiha1
Oct 4, 2004 4:25 pm
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,...
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Marianne Dorléac
marianne_dor...
Oct 4, 2004 6:13 pm
Sue Murray <suemurray@...> wrote: Like Marianne, I deliberately slow down for beginners, also because I often use a little, split second, thinking...
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Robert M. Haines
romiha1
Oct 5, 2004 6:42 pm
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...
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Peter M Hanley
peterhnly
Oct 5, 2004 10:06 pm
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...
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Jeff Bragg
jeff_bragg2001
Oct 6, 2004 5:01 am
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...
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Robert M. Haines
romiha1
Oct 6, 2004 5:01 pm
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...
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sandracamillacarlo
sandracamill...
Oct 6, 2004 8:06 pm
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...
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Adrian Tennant
adriantennant
Oct 6, 2004 9:33 pm
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...
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Robert M. Haines
romiha1
Oct 7, 2004 12:43 am
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...
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Diarmuid Fogarty
Diarmuid_Fog...
Oct 7, 2004 6:30 am
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...
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Balbis
sandracamill...
Oct 7, 2004 12:03 pm
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:...
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Balbis
sandracamill...
Oct 7, 2004 12:03 pm
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:...
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Adrian Tennant
adriantennant
Oct 7, 2004 1:24 pm
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 ...
