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Diarmuid, Wendy, When my life was dominated by correction (of 'essays' written by German university students) I found, whatever research claimed to...
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Nov 1, 2004
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... wrote Somehow this heavy-handed approach worked. One student wrote: "I've so enjoyed this course. It was like writing a long letter to a good friend each...
Diarmuid Fogarty
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Diarmuid, In research terms my own feeling is that Truscott et al are right i.e. that I wasted an awful lot of time doing all that correction. I had to do it,...
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A question that might be worth another $64000 is why so many teachers also seem to believe that detailed feedback on errors made in writing is also likely to...
Diarmuid Fogarty
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Diarmuid asks: A question that might be worth another $64000 is why so many teachers also seem to believe that detailed feedback on errors made in writing is...
Robert M. Haines
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Nov 1, 2004
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For an assignment I have been asked to select a tapescript (from ELT published material of from an authentic recording and identify and comment on four...
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Nov 1, 2004
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Diarmuid, thinking aloud about the persistent belief that a learner's written language should be corrected, writes: "Does it have something to do with the...
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Diarmuid asks: A question that might be worth another $64000 is why so many teachers also seem to believe that detailed feedback on errors made in writing is ...
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Nov 2, 2004
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Fiona writes: "I have rarely been able to convince them just to circle or gently underline the offending items, in a sort of 'x marks the spot' mode, so that ...
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Nov 2, 2004
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By no means what I consider serious action research, but I have toyed with Diarmuid's AR suggestion by first giving students a list of twenty questions about...
Robert M. Haines
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Nov 2, 2004
3:45 pm
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Rob writes: "I ask students to tell me what to focus on in correcting their work, giving as examples spelling, prepositions and punctuation." Rob, weren't you...
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Dennis writes: Rob, weren't you being a bit like a conjuror there who pushes forward the card he wants the person from the audience to choose? As a piece of...
Robert M. Haines
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Nov 2, 2004
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I'd be interested to read about the different techniques people use in the final stage of a dictogloss. Once students have heard and reconstructed the text,...
Diarmuid Fogarty
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Nov 2, 2004
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A lot depends on the original text.If a limerick is being used, for example, it might be helpful to work on stress patterns with students, possibly by asking...
Robert M. Haines
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Nov 2, 2004
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Re the dictogloss, Diarmuid, I usually find that by the time they´ve got the whole thing up on the board, which in my experience (the way I do it) takes ages...
Peter M Hanley
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Nov 2, 2004
10:28 pm
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Like Rob, what I usually feel is most involving and valuable about collaborative activities like dictogloss is the peer teaching and learning that goes on,...
Sue Murray
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Nov 2, 2004
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sorry, Peter, just out of curiosity - you say your military group are taking an internal army exam in February - so I don't suppose it's the NATO STANAG ...
Sue Murray
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Nov 2, 2004
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Hi Lee, This is a late response to your 10/28 message ("A few examples?) about the workshop you're giving on materials free teaching. You invited us to answer...
Julian Bamford
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Nov 3, 2004
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Hallo Sue I am studying for a Masters in Applied Linguistics. I had to write a paper on evaluation and chose to compare a Polish Stanag Level 3 test with a...
Russell Kent
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Nov 3, 2004
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These are a couple of things I did with a dictogloss of about 7/8 sentences to personalise it, once the students got it all out and corrected on the board : ...
Melanie King
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Nov 3, 2004
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Dear Russell, My name's Marta Gabriel and I'm a Naval Officer in the Portuguese Navy. I hold a degree in Modern Languages and Literatures (English and German...
Marta Gabriel
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Nov 3, 2004
10:26 pm
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Hi Diarmuid, as with everything, I think the next stage after the text just kinda emerges. It's often pron.-related in my class, but maybe that's my accent...
fiotf
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Nov 3, 2004
10:50 pm
7738
I did a dictogloss today and the focus at the end was twofold. Firstly, language focussed on the difference between 'The men ..' and 'Men ..' and secondly a...
Adrian Tennant
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Nov 3, 2004
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In answer to Adrian - what I do is get them to look for the differences between their version and the original and within their group try and explain why -...
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Hallo Diarmuid, Could you explain exactly what dictogloss is? Thanks Russ ... From: Diarmuid Fogarty To: dogme@yahoogroups.com Sent: 02 November 2004 21:19 ...
Russell Kent
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... UNQUOTE. KOD: Hear, here. I've also tended to find that helping folks to say what they *want* to (be helped to) say is much more appreciated than teachery...
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... UNQUOTE. I'm not sure I agree that to correct every spoken error is totally impractical quite as often as Fiona implies. Unnecessary?: yes, very often. But...
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Nov 4, 2004
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7743
... to do with real, human-sense ... mastered some usaged that the teacher ... That may well be the case in the average classroom but NOT in the Dogme ...
Adrian Tennant
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Nov 4, 2004
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*Please excuse the cross-post if you're on gisig. A bit more AR to share (notes from the blackboard): context: 20 Latino scholarship students are discussing...
Robert M. Haines
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... STANAG ... Yes indeed, it is the Stanag. I´m afraid I don´t have many notes to compare at this stage as I´m still figuring out what it´s all about--I...
Peter Hanley
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