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Welcome to the Discussion list of ReSIG, the Research Special Interest Group within IATEFL (International Association of Teachers of English as Foreign Language)! You do not need to be a member of IATEFL or the SIG to join this discussion group - membership is open to all.
Nevertheless, we encourage you to visit our website (resig.iatefl.org) and to consider becoming a member of IATEFL and the Research SIG - if you have not already joined us.
Research SIG is a unique forum for the discussion of issues connected with research into ELT, bringing together teachers, teacher-researchers and researchers from around the world. In this active community, members share their experiences of and findings from research, and network face-to-face at regular events and in print through our twice-yearly publication, ELT Research, as well as online via this discussion list. For how to join ReSIG see here: http://resig.weebly.com/join-us.html
NEWS:
* a series of online discussions of articles in the journal Language Teaching started in this Yahoo! Group in December 2011. For summaries of past discusssions see: http://resig.weebly.com/discussions.html
* Our next 2012 one-day workshop will feature Dick Allwright on Exploratory Practice (Leicester, UK - 7 July 2012). See http://resig.weebly.com/events.html for further details
* Check out the new section of our website showcasing Teacher Research Updates - http://resig.weebly.com/teacher-research.html
We aim to encourage sharing of experience through presentations in a wide variety of conventional and innovative formats such as video-recorded conference presentations, podcast versions of conference presentations, newsletter articles, more formal reports, and so on
Contact resig@iatefl.org for queries about Research SIG activities
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Re: Question 4 (May 28-29)
As Richard mentioned, I think it is interesting that the traditional linear course book hasn't died out yet. I think there must be a kind of balance of forces
Posted - Tue May 29, 2012 7:57 am
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Martin McMorrow
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Re: Question 4 (May 28-29)
Clearly there's a major shift going on in the way published learning materials are mediated to learners - and traditional, 'linear' coursebooks could be seen
Posted - Mon May 28, 2012 11:00 pm
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Re: Question 4 (May 28-29)
Dear Alan, John, Martin and all First of all, thank you for the references. I would argue that multiple choice questions have their place in the classroom
Posted - Mon May 28, 2012 11:37 am
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Diana Freeman
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Re: Question 4 (May 28-29)
Dear John, Martin and everyone else I think the following paper by Ian McGrath is very helpful in identifying some of the teacher development implications of
Posted - Mon May 28, 2012 9:33 am
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Alan Waters
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Re: Question 4 (May 28-29)
Thanks for kicking this one off Martin. Your list of affordances suggests a wide range of avenues to pursue. Given some of what has been said in our discussion
Posted - Mon May 28, 2012 5:12 am
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John Gray
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