English Raven.This page is set up to provide an accessible ongoing archive of posts and resources I've gathered on this blog relevant to the notion of teaching unplugged...
Reading Resources for ELT
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Free ELT Reading Resources and Self-Study Lessons for English Language Students
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Sue Lyon-Jones
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For a pedagogy of bare essentials - with special reference to the teaching of English as a foreign or second language. 
Sue Lyon-Jones's insight:
Teacher development podcasts, accompanied by a two-page support sheet.
TeachingEnglish | British Council | BBC | Luke Meddings builds a picture of teaching unplugged in this seminar, filmed at the British Council in London earlier in 2011.
I am going to lay down a challenge where we will attempt together to take a deeper look into some of the specific points Meddings and Thornbury have been trying to teach us through their book Teaching Unplugged...
Teaching Unplugged on the banks of Faaker See in Carinthia Austria - Open your book, page 32, the Sounds of Silence, using your surroundings as stimulus... (with thanks to Mark Andrews for the video) - Click on the link below for an edited, updated version:
In this article, Luke Meddings reflects on the constraints coursebooks can put on the learning experience in the classroom, and offers some suggestions on how we can overcome that.
The Road to Enlightenment is Paved with Mirrors (and Journals)... The musings of a TEFL-er in an unplugged world.
This is to the teachers I am working with on our current CELTA course. We have come a long way since the beginning, two weeks ago....
Dogme ELT & Interactive Whiteboards | blog-efl | One of the most interesting dates for me was the IATEFL Learning Technologies SIG's PCE (Pre-Conference Event) , where a whole day was spent looking at IWBs from all angles...
In May 2011 I ran an unplugged teacher training course with Nick Bilbrough at Horizon Language Training in Totnes, Devon. This week-long residential course was the first of its kind and it was a real privilege to work with Nick, who combines a deep knowledge and understanding of humanistic language teaching with a passion for dialogue, role-play and drama...
« Teacher Training Unplugged « If you find a reference to Dogme ELT/Teaching Unplugged – on the web, in a referred journal, in a newspaper or magazine, in a video etc. you can share this information with the world by adding an entry in the Unplugged Public Library.
Some people don’t like change . They’v e seen a couple of recent workshop titles, and it’s made them nostalgic for the early days of dogme...
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There was a good deal of whooping and hollering after the ELTJ debate at the IATEFL Conference in Brighton a couple of weeks ago. And, in the face of Alan Waters’ well-argued, but somewhat lacklustre critique, Nicky Hockly deservedly won a healthy round of applause for her feisty defence of educational technologies...
Exclusive interviews with teachers who dare to be different
eltchat transcript /This is the transcript of the 12.00BST eltchat held on 03.08.2011 on Dogme and beginners
Six Big Ideas and One Little One: A Discussion with Scott Thornbury MA in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages | http://www.newschool.edu/matesol ...
TESOL President Bethany Cagnol interviews Dale Coulter on reflective practice and blogging.
Forget anodyne lessons from the coursebook - learning language through human experience much more valuable, says Luke Meddings.
Authentic Teaching « My English language learning experience was not transformative, critical, task-based, experiential, democratic, dialogic, constructivist, or anything like that. So what? I learned it anyway...
I previously blogged about the importance of the foreign language lesson in the CELTA, and before that, wrote about the lessons we can learn from the bad experiences of a language learner...
This is a very simple lesson outline that worked well for me. ...
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iasku « You might have seen her at recent IATEFL conferences, or perhaps at a chic café in Covent Garden, with her sociolinguistical cap on, eavesdropping on conversations of unsuspecting tourists and locals alike…but what do you really know about the effervescent Chia Suan? Watch on and find out!
