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‘To listen about Tesco many times (until we all understood).’ My teacher give me confidence to speak English.’ Teachs me many vocabulary that I need in out real life. ‘The way to improve my listening the conten and vocabulary revise with white boards.’ ‘I liked the dynamic of the course, the activities that were applicated in practice.’

It’s really interesting and makes me fun.’ ‘I always study like a game, specially vocabulary. ‘Probably I’m increased vocab and speaking, and all English skill.’ But I had a good opportunity to speak and explain something.’ What did you like best about this course? More importantly, the qualitative data from the comments that students wrote to the questions provided a more in depth description of how they perceived their experience with both Dogme and the coursebook.

Remembering that (1) is the extreme end of ‘yes’ and (5) the extreme end of ‘no’: 2 out of the 10 were new students that were not present during the Dogme phase.Īlthough these numbers are not enough for the qualitative data to be in any way statistically reliable, here are the answers to the above questionnaire. There were 9 respondents to the 2 weeks of Dogme lessons, and 10 respondents to the 2 weeks of coursebook lessons. I am happy with the progress I made in this course. I learned a lot of new things on this course.ħ. I felt motivated to learn and to speak English.Ħ. The language covered was useful and easy to understand.ĥ. Once at the end of 2 weeks of Dogme lessons, and again at the end of two weeks of the Coursebook-based lessons.Ĥ.

The following student questionnaire was given out to students twice. If so, please do contribute in the comments section. I have also avoided drawing any conclusions as yet because I was hoping that you the reader might formulate your own conclusions as you read this.

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I have left out the description and the rationale behind the research methodology (which will be published in an article elsewhere), but suffice to say that this piece of research is purely qualitative and seeks to obtain as full a description of experiences and perceptions of their Dogme and coursebook-based lessons as possible. It has taken some time for me to compile these results (thank you for your patience) and in the spirit of full disclosure, here are the answers to the questionnaires that we carried out. The Teach-Off feels like something that happened a decade ago.Īs intense as it was when it was taking place, the end of it has suddenly left a gap in my life.īut yet, it has far from ended.

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