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Qutub - 20 Jun 2005 13:16 GMT

Hello , I hope you would accept me as a member in your active group . I
am eager to know the relationship between Brain-based learning and
learning a foreign language . I hope that anyone can provide me with a
reply . Thanks .

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CyberCypher - 20 Jun 2005 14:35 GMT

> Hello , I hope you would accept me as a member in your active
> group . I am eager to know the relationship between Brain-based
> learning and learning a foreign language . I hope that anyone can
> provide me with a reply . Thanks .

Somebody's been having you on. Most learning is "brain-based". Learning
how to do things physically, eg martial arts, tennis, etc, is also
body-based learning.

The bullshit brain-based learning theory you are referring to is old
wine in new bottles. Anyone with half a brain can tell you that. It's
all common sense. Good teachers don't need such theoretical trash. No
matter how many theories are constructed by the seemingly infinite
number of graduate students and PhDs out there trying to tell teachers
how to do their jobs via schematics instead of using common-sense
principles of teaching and learning, bad teachers cannot be turned into
teachers given apples in silk purses.

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jjw1937 - 20 Jun 2005 21:11 GMT

>>Hello , I hope you would accept me as a member in your active
>>group . I am eager to know the relationship between Brain-based
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> principles of teaching and learning, bad teachers cannot be turned into
> teachers given apples in silk purses.

You're right on there Franke. It was put this way by a couple of the
really good teacher trainers I knew in Japan as people who can't teach
try to invent methodology that says that their lack of results is
because the brilliant real results they got were not visible to the
unenlightened. When I started ESL back in Australia I found the unis
and Department of Education were infested with non teaching academics
and bureaucrats who pushed stupid methods. Do you remember look and say
and the whole language approach that produced three generations of
illiterates and the genre (register) competencies that made sure that
good teachers were handicapped?
JohnW ranting in Sydney.

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CyberCypher - 21 Jun 2005 03:14 GMT

>>>Hello , I hope you would accept me as a member in your active
>>>group . I am eager to know the relationship between Brain-based
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> infested with non teaching academics and bureaucrats who pushed
> stupid methods.

I'm happy to see that I share this opinion with at least a few
others, all of whom are undoubtedly better teachers than the
theoreticians.

> Do you remember look and say and the whole
> language approach that produced three generations of illiterates
> and the genre (register) competencies that made sure that good
> teachers were handicapped? JohnW ranting in Sydney.

No, I don't remember that approach. That's probably because after
reading a dozen or so methods books, I stopped caring about the crap
they contained

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credoquaabsurdum - 20 Jun 2005 22:27 GMT

> Hello , I hope you would accept me as a member in your active group .

Welcome!

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Brain-based learning