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Sun 5 Jul 2015 1:48PM

Aim 5: We challenge existing notions of what ELT is.

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Bill Templer Mon 6 Jul 2015 6:11AM

This seems a bit too general. I have been writing for years about changing what we understand by the 'E' in ELT. But I don't think that is what most people in TAWSIG want to be concerned with. Maybe this aim could be rephrased. Regarding changing the 'E', here one article of interest: http://goo.gl/sgQMH

MN

Poll Created Mon 6 Jul 2015 8:35AM

We challenge existing notions of what ELT is. Closed Tue 7 Jul 2015 9:15AM

Results

Results Option % of points Voters
Agree 0.0% 0  
Abstain 100.0% 1 BT
Disagree 0.0% 0  
Block 0.0% 0  
Undecided 0% 5 PW MN RDB HW BM

1 of 6 people have participated (16%)

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Bill Templer
Abstain
Mon 6 Jul 2015 9:13AM

I stated something earlier

MN

Mura Nava Mon 6 Jul 2015 9:31AM

ok was in process of just adding proposals willy nilly, hoping that when others join they can see that they are able to propose themselves

MN

Mura Nava Mon 6 Jul 2015 9:32AM

something like We aim to critique notions of what is English Language Teaching?

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Bill Templer Mon 6 Jul 2015 9:51AM

MAYBE:

We aim to critique established notions of what English Language Teaching is and is not.

we know in GISIG that a number of teachers think 'issues', global or otherwise, should best be avoided in classrooms and textbooks. i.e. that GI is not part of ELT. And that depending on place, lots of issues are deemed taboo.

Bill

MN

Poll Created Tue 7 Jul 2015 9:15AM

We aim to critique established notions of what English Language Teaching is and is not. Closed Wed 30 Sep 2015 8:07AM

Results

Results Option % of points Voters
Agree 100.0% 2 MN BT
Abstain 0.0% 0  
Disagree 0.0% 0  
Block 0.0% 0  
Undecided 0% 4 PW RDB HW BM

2 of 6 people have participated (33%)

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Mura Nava
Agree
Tue 7 Jul 2015 9:16AM

i think this is more specific, thanks to Bill's restatement

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Bill Templer
Agree
Tue 7 Jul 2015 9:51AM

Bear in mind that I have had experience in a number of places where ordinary learners make little progress with standard English, like provincial working-class Thailand and here in the Balkans under capitalism redux, a simpler 'critical CLIL' needed

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Paul Walsh Tue 7 Jul 2015 3:21PM

Question Bill raises is important. Where is the boundary of our profession? Is it with 'English' or with 'Language teaching'?

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