One student asks questions about the topic to other student/s. Rationale – Creates collaboration and competition, and focuses the learning experience on the students’ interests and needs, motivational. Have students pick a topic for the lesson after a brainstorming session, I’ve created some lesson plans here, which you can adapt quite easily depending on the topic. This has been created using a variety of teacher training workshops by Luke Meddings and Scott Thornbury and the Conversation Activation Teaching framework by Ken Lackman in his article, CAT: A Framework for Dogme. The teacher actively helps facilitate the emergence of language, as well as motivates students to engage with the new language critically.
Emergent language – Language emerges through classroom activities that encourage collaboration between students, and language that has not necessarily been taught emerges also.Materials-Light – Allows for the teacher to centre lessons on the students’ needs and interests.Key importance is put on finding out about your students’ interests and sharing things about yourself. Text-led teaching (written and spoken) – the focus being on co-construction of language between teacher and student.Luke Meddings, co-founded the movement with Thornbury (2009) and together they came up with three pillars for the approach: The name Dogme, comes from the film movement instigated by Lars Von Trier ( Dogma 95) where film-makers rejected the slick effects and trickery used in Hollywood films which were said to produce inauthentic responses by audiences and instead opted for more gritty, real methods. He posited that the copious variety of resources hindered real life conversation and communication. This new approach put value in the real-time emergence of language that occurred in the classroom. I still get flashbacks to manic summer seasons of teaching back-to-back lessons with limited time to prepare, outdated textbooks, frantic queues for the photocopier with other harassed teachers and the perpetual paper jam or ink explosion all added to the mix – but the Dogme approach really helps. I didn’t come across this method myself until I was doing my MA in Applied Linguistics and TESOL and I wish I had come across it sooner. Scott Thornbury came up with this approach in 2000, following on from an article he wrote questioning the reliance on coursebooks and other classroom staples. What is the Dogme ELT approach or Teaching Unplugged?
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