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Free ELT Reading Resources and Self-Study Lessons for English Language Students
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January 2, 2013 5:49 PM

The Road to Teaching Unplugged

The Road to Teaching Unplugged | Reading Resources for ELT | Scoop.it

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...

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January 2, 2013 5:51 PM

Dogme Discussion List

Dogme Discussion List | Reading Resources for ELT | Scoop.it

For a pedagogy of bare essentials - with special reference to the teaching of English as a foreign or second language.

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January 2, 2013 5:47 PM

TeachingEnglish Radio | TeachingEnglish | British Council | BBC

TeachingEnglish Radio | TeachingEnglish | British Council | BBC | Reading Resources for ELT | Scoop.it
Sue Lyon-Jones's insight:

Teacher development podcasts, accompanied by a two-page support sheet.

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January 2, 2013 5:40 PM

20 steps to teaching unplugged

20 steps to teaching unplugged | Reading Resources for ELT | Scoop.it

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.

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January 2, 2013 5:39 PM

The Dogme Blog Challenge: Kalinago English

The Dogme Blog Challenge: Kalinago English | Reading Resources for ELT | Scoop.it

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...

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January 2, 2013 5:37 PM

Teaching Unplugged, with Luke Meddings

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:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ8Ftpck2II

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January 2, 2013 5:36 PM

Not Unit 5!, by Luke Meddings

Not Unit 5!, by Luke Meddings | Reading Resources for ELT | Scoop.it

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.

 

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January 2, 2013 5:33 PM

Unplugged Reflections

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The Road to Enlightenment is Paved with Mirrors (and Journals)... The musings of a TEFL-er in an unplugged world.

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January 2, 2013 5:31 PM

Powerful beyond measure

Powerful beyond measure | Reading Resources for ELT | Scoop.it

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....

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January 2, 2013 5:30 PM

Looking back on 2011...

Looking back on 2011... | Reading Resources for ELT | Scoop.it

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...

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January 2, 2013 5:29 PM

UNPLUGGED ON THE HORIZON

UNPLUGGED ON THE HORIZON | Reading Resources for ELT | Scoop.it

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...

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January 2, 2013 5:28 PM

The Unplugged Public Library

The Unplugged Public Library | Reading Resources for ELT | Scoop.it

« 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.

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January 2, 2013 5:27 PM

DOGMEVOLUTION - The Unplugged Index

DOGMEVOLUTION - The Unplugged Index | Reading Resources for ELT | Scoop.it

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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January 2, 2013 5:50 PM

T is for Technology « An A-Z of ELT

T is for Technology « An A-Z of ELT | Reading Resources for ELT | Scoop.it

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...

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January 2, 2013 5:48 PM

iasku

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Exclusive interviews with teachers who dare to be different

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January 2, 2013 5:40 PM

Is dogme possible for beginners

Is dogme possible for beginners | Reading Resources for ELT | Scoop.it

eltchat transcript /This is the transcript of the 12.00BST eltchat held on 03.08.2011 on Dogme and beginners

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January 2, 2013 5:39 PM

Six Big Ideas and One Little One

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 ...
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January 2, 2013 5:38 PM

Bethany Cagnol interviews Dale Coulter

TESOL President Bethany Cagnol interviews Dale Coulter on reflective practice and blogging.
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January 2, 2013 5:36 PM

Embrace the parsnip

Embrace the parsnip | Reading Resources for ELT | Scoop.it
Forget anodyne lessons from the coursebook - learning language through human experience much more valuable, says Luke Meddings.
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January 2, 2013 5:34 PM

Random thoughts in the hot winter

Random thoughts in the hot winter | Reading Resources for ELT | Scoop.it

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...

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January 2, 2013 5:32 PM

Five against one: Teaching against the odds.

Building steam with a grain of salt 

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January 2, 2013 5:31 PM

My trainees’ 10 (+1) Maxims of Teaching

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...

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January 2, 2013 5:30 PM

Back to the drawing board

Back to the drawing board | Reading Resources for ELT | Scoop.it

This is a very simple lesson outline that worked well for me.  ...

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January 2, 2013 5:28 PM

EFL Thoughts and Reflections: Dogme criticisms

EFL Experiment 2: The ultimate Dogme criticisms and responses. Here's my list of Dogme criticisms and responses by some great Dogme teachers.

http://eflthoughtsandreflections.wordpress.com/2012/02/12/efl-experiment-2-the-ultimate-dogme-criticisms-and-responses/

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January 2, 2013 5:28 PM

Interview With Chia Suan Chong

Interview With Chia Suan Chong | Reading Resources for ELT | Scoop.it

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!

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