Hi everyone, Below I've pasted something about how actors remember lines, and the address of the full report. The final goal of language learning isn't to...
Dear Alan, I myself also make claims based on my experience and feelings without any 'empirical' evidence, I just wonder why people feel the need of a famous...
Whether Chomsky has classroom experience or not, I think his name lends some weight to the assertion if for no other reason that he is (in)famous for...
It might be more of a strand of the humanistic approach, with a CLT bent. ... Can anyone make this clearer for me: is Dogme another strand of the CLT approach...
Rob, I so agree with you about the value of experience. Although there is always the danger of subjectivity - experience tends to 'find us' whereas academic...
I'd beg to differ, actually. Being a bit of an amateur thesp myself, I often find that the best way to remember my lines is to copy them out, according to ...
Someone attempted to post this advert on the dogme site, and, as moderator, I was going to trash it, but I was intrigued by the (unintentionally) dogme-esque...
Merci Julian ! I fully agree with you ! Sometimes the students ask me to give them a sort of "lecture" about a particular point of French grammar. Well, I give...
Different folks, different strokes..... Singing is another 'word learning' activity in this category. But it's one thing to learn the lyrics to a song and sing...
Someone just blatantly made up this bit of empirical evidence: http://www.work-learning.com/chigraph.htm presumably to back up their hunches. The web page...
Dear Rob - You make a good point - we don't trust the evidence of our own experience and the force of our own intuitions as much as we should. And it is...
One of the reasons why I don't trust the evidence of successful learning (at least form any one specific lesson plan) in my own teaching is that I have often...
Hi all, Can anyone help me, please? Being a bit of a dingbat, I've included a quotation in something I'm writing but I forgot to note the source of the...
Hello To Everyone, I would like to say hello to everyone. I live in Rome, have been teaching English to children for over 11 years. I hope that this is going...
In light of our recent discussion about whether Chomsky's views on education should be given extra weight because he is Noam Chomsky (when will Microsoft allow...
A former member of dogme has just sent me this blog reference to a discussion on educational policy in Taiwan. I seem to remember there was interested in a...
I was led to the Widdowson books thanks to Dennis and downloaded myself a chapter... Interesting discussion on the difference between a trainer and a teacher....
Dave, Glad the download tip was of use. Typical that Widdowson teases out a difference between "teacher" and "trainer". All I've noticed, and I never worked...
Dear Group After 'lurking' as usual for months I have a new idea to put to you. How many of you are into online teaching? Those of us who are must share the...
Dear Dennis, Yes you are totally right! In my opinion, the title of "trainer" came about because of the development of in company training programs in the...
I recently sent the following message to the Young Learners Group and thought I would like to share it with Dogme list, too. Dennis. I was listening last night...
Hi Sheila What's a 'moodle' when it's at home? At any rate, it sounds quite cosy and inviting. It seems I'm rather out of touch with e-learning jargon... Dave...
I got laughed at once when I described myself as a 'trainer'. Apparently, in the country concerned, ther word 'trainer' was what they used to describe people...
... I recently sent the following message to the Young Learners Group and thought I would like to share it with Dogme list, too. Dennis. I was listening last...
Hello, this is Angela from Spain. I am working as a teacher of Spanish as a foreign language and doing some research about new approaches to teaching and...
With his permission, I am posting Andrew (Wright's) messaage tothe YL list which followed my own about Lionel Billows. Dennis ... Andrew wrote: ... Gordon It...
Particularly because of the character / culture of this group, I've a feeling you might be able to respond to my request. (Read what you will into that opening...
