... with the language being learned as a default setting... ... Hey Simon&Co. Zdravim z Cech! (Now this was principled wasn't it?) I enjoyed your article in...
And I thought MT was the abbreviation for my home state of Montana... In the monolingual group of students I teach, who would be considered beginner to low...
Hi Rob, ... that. Oh yes, I agree. But one argument in the article was that MT was useful as it enabled you to explain grammar in authentic texts and therefore...
Right-o, Doc. Just goes to show how important context can be: I have not yet read the article but wanted to chime in on the thread. :-) Cheers, Rob [Non-text...
Here's a thought: if there is any truth to the underlying (perhaps implicit) tenets of dogme, what is one to make of those researchers, those authors and those...
I have often wondered about this myself. Russ Diarmuid wrote: If dogme is all about a poor pedagogy which rejects coursebooks as prepackaged McNuggets etc and...
Diarmuid, I'm not sure that's existential angst you're suffering from, but, whatever label we give it, I will risk a simple answer to each of your queries: The...
I work for the English Language Gazette, a monthly trade newspaper for the English language teaching industry, based in London and distributed worldwide. We...
... First of all, who are these researchers who reject the underlying tenets of dogme outright? There seems to me to be a small but growing body of evidence ...
I'm also puzzled by Diarmuid's implication that if someone writes coursebooks and 'How to ..' books this can't be squared with supporting Dogme. Firstly, I'm...
Hi all My selective take on what the experts have written is that there's quite a lot which implicitly supports dogme thinking. Allwright ('what do we want ...
I could be wrong, but it seems to me , in the context of the present discussion , that Diarmuid's existential angst is the anxiety of someone who is thinking...
I forgot to make a very important point. I don't think I'm ultimately interested in converting other people to my point of view - but I do want to convince...
Have we come full-circle back to Scott's discussion (paper) on SLA? How do we know what we know about language learning? Well... 1. As with Dennis, we have...
I mentioned that not much reserach had been done on the use or value of coursebooks. Here's the abstract of a study I just happen to have stumbled across. ...
... If you all remember from my post a few weeks ago in which I expressed some frustration, I'm a 'teacher' of teens in a U.S. public (gov't) school. Each...
Brian, I enjoy and am amused by your accounts, even though the situation may not be a laughing matter for you. What comes across so clearly is the difference...
I think part of the problem is that the "How is everyone today?" intro, or "What did you do on the weekend?" is really rather lame and not particularly ...
Brian, Like Dennis, I am excited by your dilemma. Perhaps Dennis and I share some sort of sadistic tendency. We'll work through that as soon as the house...
Oops, I meant to delete all reference to the Arizona judge news article, because I don't think it's really relevant to Brian's dilemma. Here it is if you're...
Hey Brian I guess we all know this all too well. I just couldn't help but remember how Andrew, my best English teacher used to kick off his lessons. He'd ask...
A collection of short EFL/ESL articles, such as - The Role of Native Language in ESL/EFL Teaching - What Schools Look for in a Teacher - Basic Principles of...
I'm with Dr. Evil on this one. I can't remember the last time I could be bothered to ask someone (in class or anywhere else) what they did at the weekend....
HI Everyone, As the father of three children, 12, 14 and 16, I have some experience with the "Am I talking to my bloody self here"/ question, which is usually...
I agree with Russ. I think that if you go in talking about sex and drugs and stuff, in my experience, teens just look at you like some sad old person trying to...
Should feel guilty about lurking so long without saying a thing, but guilt is bad for your health and tastes worse than chocolate so... I found Fiona's...
I just SO agree with Fiona, I have to quote her: "I think that if you go in talking about sex and drugs and stuff, in my experience, teens just look at you...
