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The Principles of DOGME

Dogme has ten key principles. 1. Interactivity: the most direct route to learning is to be found in the interactivity between teachers and students and amongst the students themselves. 2. Engagement: students are most engaged by content they have created themselves 3. Dialogic processes: learning is social and dialogic, where knowledge is co-constructed 4. Scaffolded conversations: learning takes place [...]
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Multiple Intelligences

Fact or fiction? What does seem to be true is that MI (multiple intelligences) is widely accepted as a part of teaching theory. What what exactly is it? What does MI mean? Where is the proof? Is it the same as, or something different to NLP (neuro linguistic programming)? Can anyone tell me what intelligence is? [...]
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PPP: a small addition

Sometimes the presentation phase of a lesson can take up most of a lesson. What percentage of an overall lesson do you spend in presenting particular language point and what percentage do the learners get to actually use the language? Half of the lesson, or just five percent of the lesson time? Do the learners [...]
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What is communicative language teaching?

Communicative language teaching (CLT) is a label that is often used to describe courses and it seems to be a label that has become so over-used and easily used that it has perhaps begun to lose its meaning. When asked in a recent seminar what the characteristics of community language were, there did seem to [...]
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Strategies for listening, note taking and discussion

These notes are based on a presentation given by Theresa Doğuelli University. The presentation was after sales service from Oxford University Press on the Lecture Ready series of academic English text books. The aim of the book is strategy training and this was where Teresa began her presentation. The differences between a strategy, skill, plan and [...]
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TBL – a rough guide

This post is intended to give the most cursory idea about what exactly task based learning is.
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