INCORPORATING DOGME ELT IN THE CLASSROOM

IATEFL GLASGOW

23 MARCH 2012

MARTIN SKETCHLEYWWW.ELTEXPERIENCES.COMTWITTER: @ELTEXPERIENCES

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION TO DOGME ELT

ANALYSIS OF DOGME ELT

LESSON IDEAS TO DEVELOP & INCORPORATE DOGME ELT

DOGME ELT: BEST PRACTICE

QUESTIONS

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WHAT IS DOGME ELT?

THERE ARE THREE KEY TENETS OF DOGME ELT:

INCORPORATION OF A ‘CONVERSATION-DRIVEN’ APPROACH

A ‘MATERIALS-LIGHT’ FOCUS

SCAFFOLDING ‘EMERGENT LANGUAGE’

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HOW IMPORTANT IS EACH PRINCIPLE?

EACH OF THE KEY TENETS SUPPORT THE OTHER PRINCIPLES OF DOGME ELT:

WITHOUT A ‘CONVERSATION-DRIVEN’ PRINCIPLE THERE WOULD BE LITTLE ‘EMERGENT LANGUAGE’.

WITHOUT ‘EMERGENT LANGUAGE’, THERE WOULD BE LITTLE OPPORTUNITY TO SCAFFOLD LANGUAGE.

WITH LITTLE RESPECT TO A ‘MATERIALS-LIGHT’ CLASSROOM, AUTHENTIC CONVERSATION COULD BE IMPEDED.

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HOW IMPORTANT IS EACH PRINCIPLE?

DOGME ELT

CONVERSATION-DRIVEN

MATERIALS-LIGHT

EMERGENTLANGUAGE

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MATERIALS-LIGHT

WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF COURSEBOOKS?

ADVANTAGES:

• Provides newly trained teachers structure• Students can view their progress

• Grammar and vocabulary is delivered in manageable ‘bite-sized’ chunks

DISADVANTAGES:

• Hinders potential exploratory and reactive teaching• Order of acquisition of grammar and vocabulary is unpredictable• Decisions based on coursebooks ‘de-skill’ teachers (Hall 2011 p.

214)

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COURSEBOOKS IN THE CLASSROOM

HOW OFTEN DO YOU USE COURSEBOOKS?

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COURSEBOOKS IN THE CLASSROOM

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COURSEBOOKS IN THE CLASSROOM

• The majority of student research Participants indicated they used Coursebooks most of the Time.• There needs to be a Fundamental Shift away

from ‘Teaching the Book’, towards ‘Teaching the Learners’.

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POPULAR MATERIAL-LIGHT ACTIVITIES

From the student survey, the majority of popular material-light activities focuses on:

i) Speakingii) Discourse

iii) Pronunciationiv) Listening

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CONVERSATION-DRIVEN

IS THERE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ‘CONVERSATION’ AND ‘COMMUNICATION’?

CONVERSATION: FOCUSES ON FLUENCY AND PROMOTES LEARNER AWARENESS OF LANGUAGE.

COMMUNICATION: FOCUSES ON ACCURACY AS WELL AS LANGUAGE FORM.

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CONVERSATION-DRIVEN

COMMUNICATIONPRE-PLANNED ACTIVITIESFOCUS ON FORMPRESCRIPTIVE GRAMMARTRANSACTIONALPREDICTABLETOP-DOWN TEACHING

CONVERSATIONIMPROVISED DISCUSSIONFOCUS ON MEANING DESCRIPTIVE GRAMMARINTERACTIONALUNPREDICTABLEBOTTOM-UP TEACHING

ACCURACYFLUENCY

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“THERE IS ARMY BASE IN HOME-TOWN BUT NOT THERE NOW”

WHAT LANGUAGE PHRASE REQUIRES SCAFFOLDING?

“THERE USED TO BE AN ARMY BASE IN MY HOME-TOWN”

SCAFFOLDING EMERGENT LANGUAGE

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WHAT IS BEST PRACTICE?

WHAT IS THE BEST APPROACH TO INCORPORATE DOGME ELT IN THE CLASSROOM?

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WHAT IS BEST PRACTICE?

In the majority of situations “a lesson which is so tightly planned (and implemented) that there is no room at all for improvisation, and conversely, a lesson which is not planned at all and therefore entirely improvised, would generally be considered unbalanced and perhaps not terribly effective.” (van Lier 1996 p.200)

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LESSON IDEA: “AN ACCIDENT WAITING TO HAPPEN”

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ANY QUESTIONS?

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