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Scott Thornbury in Second Life
Scott Thornbury, co-founder of the Dogme ELT movement along with Luke Meddings, will be talking in Second Life on Sunday 26 April at 18.00 (GMT), which is 11.00 PST. Dogme and Second Life are a very...
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SLanguages 2009: Dogme ELT for Virtual Worlds
SLanguages 2009 will take place on 8 & 9 May. I will be giving a presentation about the Dogme ELT movement and how its approach to language teaching has a lot to offer language educators using...
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Google Wave for Language Learning
Google have just presented a preview of their forthcoming Google Wave – a communication tool that combines email, IM and collaborative work-spaces. Effectively it is a mash up of Google Docs, Google...
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Augmented Reality Language Learning – virtual worlds meet m-learning
Talking with Graham Stanley last month and seeing Pierre Moussy’s G2 Android smartphone in action got me thinking more seriously about mobile learning for languages. Some of the G2 phone’s features...
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Dogme for Virtual World Language Learning (Presentation at SLanguages 2009)
At SLanguages 2009 I gave a presentation on Dogme language teaching and its relevance to virtual world language education. Here is the presentation as text… I have been using virtual worlds such as...
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Dogme 2.0: Some Thoughts on Guidelines or “Vows”
Several people in the Dogme Yahoo discussion forum have attempted to give greater shape to the idea of Dogme teaching using web 2.0 technologies (“Dogme 2.0”). Graham Stanley has suggested formulating...
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Exploring out-of-class learning, mobile devices and Dogme language learning
Language classes account for a relatively limited amount of the student’s learning – and much (perhaps most) of the learning is done informally, out-of-class. So, how can we as teachers change what we...
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What makes a conversation pedagogical?
Reflecting upon my recent one-to-one Chinese lessons in southern China, I felt that a dialogic approach (essentially Dogme) worked so well because the conversations with the teacher were much more than...
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Personalizing the Phrasebook
I have been focusing on working with phrases with my students (and also in my own Chinese learning), and in both cases I have realized that phrasebooks can offer some support with language learning....
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Emergent Syllabus – a syllabus for dialogic language learning
The challenge A student recently expressed that he wanted greater structure for his Spanish lessons and also wanted to have a clearer sense of what he would be learning when. He said that he wanted a...
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