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But I mean inside the lesson itself. I'm shortly off to teach 34 people. If I was going to dogme it, how would all of them agree on which direction we should all take for the next hour or so? (They already seem to dislike each other and prefer different methodology along national lines!) Hi woodcut...

Great article, do post up your tips as that'd be very interesting. Have you thought about writing a guest-piece for Jamie Keddie (TEFLclips)'s blog? http://www.teflclips.com/ and if you've got some juicy business vids I'd be very happy to have you write a guest-piece for me on this subject. Take car...

Another key in overcoming fossilization is motivating students to bump their English up to a higher level. I think they've got to believe the class(es) they are taking can help them do that. Otherwise, they view the corrections as trivial. These are really great thoughts, ouyang, and I agree - what...

Hi FH, Yes that's taking things to extremes - the idea of dogme is basically to concentrate on the learner's needs and focus on the emergent language rather than follow the rules of snoringly dull textbooks - which sometimes, dare I say, have questionable methodology and seem only to be parodies of ...

woodcutter,

As a semi-involved 'cult' member of the dogme-in-teaching movement, am highly amused to learn about the no-desk rule - gonna go google, where did you find that!?!

Karenne

Do you ever have students who can't stop making the same errors over and over and over again?

What do you do about this?

Would love to know your thoughts, either here on on the blog!

http://kalinago.blogspot.com/2009/03/fo ... guage.html

Karenne

It's called Dogme! Seriously, cult movement in teaching started (sorry, named) by Scott Thornbury

Google it
Karenne

Hey, have you guys seen slideshare? www.slideshare.net This is a great site where you can download presentations from top marketers, business managers, students, etc. etc. Full of great stuff that goes with any class. I've also done a couple of blog postings with links to specific ESPs here: http://...

Here are a few of my lessons incorporating videos to teach EFL! (Lorikeet, all, hope this isn't a double posting) Great sites for finding videos - big thinkers, CEOs, scientists and more: http://kalinago.blogspot.com/2009/04/best-videos-for-teaching-business-and.html Using the Susan Boyle Saga as a ...

Great posts, nicky! thnx 4 sharing
Karenne

Do you ever talk about anger with your language students? Why not? Probably for the same reasons that textbooks avoid this like the plague. But if you, like me, live in a country where my native language isn't spoken then you'll know exactly how hard it is to express the things that just piss you of...

Did a posting on the top sites for finding videos to taking into your classes with adult language learners, the sites I recommend are BigThink, TED and Pop!Casts. In the blog I also have selected a few great ones from various sources: http://kalinago.blogspot.com/2009/04/best-videos-for-teaching-bus...

Yup! Seriously, have created a lesson to go with the video on youtube -

Enjoy,
Karenne

http://kalinago.blogspot.com/2009/04/su ... esson.html

IATEFL and British Council will be hosting massive online teacher training session. More details available here:

http://kalinago.blogspot.com/2009/03/ca ... -goes.html

No, I don't mind at all Lorikeet - thanks!

Karenne