Reflections On New Teaching Horizons!
This article deals with the input and output in second language acquisition. We will define concepts such as: input vs output, input, intake, and uptake, and affordances vs emergence. Input and output in second...
Teaching English through the content not only the form When teaching English, have you ever had the experience that your students can answer written tests and quizzes perfectly well without any problem and, strangely...
Learning theories / Linguistics
by MOHAMMED RHALMI · Published October 17, 2014 · Last modified April 17, 2016
Construction grammar Construction Grammar refers to a study of language that views grammar not as a collection of rules that generates sentences (as in generative grammar) but as a continuum involving both syntax and...
This is a link to an article about the Dogme approach to English language teaching by Luke Meddings and Scott Thornbury: The main points they try to make are the following: How did dogme emerge?...
In the dogme approach new metaphors are used to describe English language learning. Two of these metaphors are called affordance and emergence. Affordance Traditionally input was seen as all words, contexts, and other forms...
Learner centeredness is a key element in Dogme approach. The learner is taken into account, freeing him from the dictatorship of the published textbooks. The focus is on conversational communication between learner and teacher...
Because teaching has become too lightweight, too frivolous and not rigorous enough, High Demand Teachers call on for a tweak in the current methods of teaching. They contend that we should ask more from...
Dogme is a communicative approach to language teaching that was initiated by Scott Thornbury in his article, “A Dogma for EFL”. Dogme advocates a kind of teaching that doesn’t rely on published textbooks but...
Articles / Class management / Learning theories
by MOHAMMED RHALMI · Published September 14, 2011 · Last modified March 4, 2014
Stop teaching! That’s what I say to myself when I feel I’m too invasive in my teaching, when I interfere too much in the classroom activities, when I jump at every hurdles that my...
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