Dear David, I relate to your recent comments. Knowing the students and their backgrounds is essential to making the lessons and teaching relevant to their...
Jai Hill
jaihill@...
Feb 1, 2005 1:26 pm
1918
Hi David Without going into the main argument of your reaction to the article in ETP, I feel I should come to the defense of the author of the item that...
... Points noted, Jan. Thanks for taking the trouble to clear up my gross inaccuracies. I didn't have the magazine to hand as I wrote the other night, and I ...
My wife brought to my attention an announcement for a conference being hosted by The Centre for English Language Teacher Education and Applied Linguistics...
... Hear, here, Dennis. I'm gonna have to side very heavily with Dennis on this one. (Sorry, Dennis!). As I was reading that impenetrable poppycock, I found...
Dennis, David, all Yes, I also think this is writing (and therefore thinking) of the lowest level. I'd like to have been a witness to the organisers' meeting...
At first sight, the "third space" text looks like a prima ballerina at a rugby match. We don't get to see much postmodernist discourse in ELT or teacher...
Hugh Cory
hughcory@...
Feb 10, 2005 6:43 pm
1929
Dear Hugh, This is how we are invited: "We would like to interrogate the concept of third space. (...) The intermediate spaces -- linguistic, discursive and...
... Hi Hugh; hi all of you. If anyone from CELTEAK *is* reading, could they indeed, please, publicly at least acknowledge that they even understand the plain- ...
All I have time for at this stage is to add my "Hear x 2" to Hugh's considerate and intelligent comments. Perhaps the "world of academia" with all its...
... Very wrong, Jan. The reality (at least inasmuch as the example Dennis contributed can fairly be referred to as a "reality") is the inverse of what you're ...
... Hi Arnold, Dennis, Jan, Hugh & Everybody. Sorry to be squeezing *two* slightly lengthy retorts out of just one short message from Jan, but I can promise...
Arnold, in response to Hugh's "prima ballerina" analogy, wrote: "Do you not agree that she has one hell of a communication problem if she is to attract some of...
Loved the ballerina and rugby analogy. By extension, the little ‘Third Space’ ballerina has been given the ‘third degree’ - and needlessly. “We would...
Maybe it's just because my amour propre is wounded by the image of myself as one of the barbarians left howling outside the gates, a role that is unfamilar to...
At least half of the following should definitely have been left out of the CELTEAL conference announcement: "The theme of the conference, 'Interrogating Third...
"I would expect that the [CELTEAL] message is addressed to those who will understand it without effort.” - Costas Please remember no one representing...
... Wholesome questions, Costas. Sure, you're right, there might be the odd bit of discourse that falls into a grey area where you and I and others could (if...
... I feel compelled to point out, Simon, that you're right on several points, not the least of which is being "with David on this one, by and large". But...
... nowt ... Costas, ... kind ... To start with, I didn't say that the text was good enough for me, nor that its being, or not being, good enough for me would...
Exactly indeed. Don't want none of, say, *our* kind 'round there. So put up those linguistic firewalls, eh? Do you two *really* find sommat commendable in such...
Yes, yes, yes, Costas. We all know what you said. We all understood it. And we all know what I said you'd said. And we all understood that, too. I don't...
... Now that's an interesting way of seeing it. However, I wouldn't think that it's a matter of discriminating against specific groups; rather, it's a matter...
Hi Costas; hi everybody. My (new) comments are interspersed [Is that the right word? No matter; y'all know whaddamean] in Costas's text... ... [Me:] I just...
Title of the conference: Quality Teaching for Quality Learning: Education for Critical Thinking Aim of the conference: The Faculty Development Center of the...
Dear Nik, I am a Teacher Educator working at a teacter training institute in India called "English Language Teaching Institute, Orissa". I thought I should...
Hey Susmita, I am working as a TEFL and Uni. Foundation Year teacher in a language school in Oxford. I'm from Gujarat and I came here a while ago from India ...
Dear Nik, I would like to echo Susmita's question. (Thanks, Susmitadi for raising it.) Can I copy/ reprint some of the articles from SearchEnglish in some...
Hi All I've had a couple of requests through the list recently regarding publishing articles from http://searchenglish.britishcouncil.org and although I have ...
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