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Fethiye WAYK: June 2014
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Taking language teaching further, by standing on the shoulders of giants. Tuesday, 3 June 2014. Turkish Session Diary 3: Settling on session patterns. Well, 5 weeks in and my new bunch are still with me. I've duplicated the Fethiye WAYK Turkish Curriculum on the official wiki. Over onto fethiyewayk.wikia.com. I won't be creating many new pages as I go forward, so I'll be able to update the official wiki now and again. I labour the concept of TQ Copycat. Lots of "No, that was fine! And lots of laughs, bac...
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Fethiye WAYK: May 2014
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Taking language teaching further, by standing on the shoulders of giants. Monday, 5 May 2014. It's been a while, but I'm pleased to report that Fethiye WAYK is back. I've started with two weekly Turkish sessions, and Gözde did some English sessions with adults just before the tourism season began, and is continuing with some children's sessions. In the Turkish side, I have restructured the curriculum somewhat by eliminating suffixes to begin with. Our opening conversation now goes as follows:. There was ...
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Fethiye WAYK: February 2014
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Taking language teaching further, by standing on the shoulders of giants. Tuesday, 25 February 2014. A clearer glimpse of fluency. Thanks to Sky Hopinka, I have been able to add subtitles to the video. Of Evan Gardner having a fluent conversation with him in Chinook Jargon (Chinuk Wawa) after only a year and a half of weekly language nights. (Skip forward to 01:38 for the start of the Wawa conversation.). This has answered a lot of my questions. But I'll let you come to your own conclusions! Olan WAYK, a...
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Fethiye WAYK: October 2014
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Taking language teaching further, by standing on the shoulders of giants. Saturday, 4 October 2014. Turkish Session Diary 13: Thou Shalt Mumble. I'd got funny looks when I demonstrated the sign for TQ Mumble with another group, so with this group I had so far shied away from explicitly suggesting it, although I had hinted at it in principle. However, the wiki article. About it is quite right when it says:. As part of the learning process. You're not building a language skill at all, and there's the added...
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Fethiye WAYK: Turkish Session Diary 9: Limit
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Taking language teaching further, by standing on the shoulders of giants. Monday, 25 August 2014. Turkish Session Diary 9: Limit. I'm starting to realise that with WAYK, lesson plans are never more than a blueprint. Once you've got that spark going things always turn out differently, but in a good way. I had a playing card-sized clipart silhouette of a burglar, and put it in the centre of the table. "Hırsız var! There's a thief about! I'm not a thief you're a thief! The thief stole ."). Everybody spent m...
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Fethiye WAYK: Turkish Session Diary 10: A hunting warm-up game
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Taking language teaching further, by standing on the shoulders of giants. Monday, 1 September 2014. Turkish Session Diary 10: A hunting warm-up game. Ever since I had my first proper WAYK session with Arne. In subsequent posts (Turkish Session Diaries 6. And " On the art of hunting language. The first was a Facebook post by Latin teacher Eric Mentges ( private link. In which he explained how his "students worked in groups on forming an English set up based on a card they drew" after which "each group pre...
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Fethiye WAYK: Turkish Session Diary 12: Full circle
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Taking language teaching further, by standing on the shoulders of giants. Monday, 22 September 2014. Turkish Session Diary 12: Full circle. All the way back in July I posted about. My first epiphany with WAYK where I broke the mould of session patterns and started with genuine role-playing games. After that point I started to achieve some genuine acquisition instead of merely giving my students some glorified mnemonics. English translation in regular):. You can even sing along if you like:. This is a pen.
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Fethiye WAYK: August 2014
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Taking language teaching further, by standing on the shoulders of giants. Monday, 25 August 2014. Turkish Session Diary 9: Limit. I'm starting to realise that with WAYK, lesson plans are never more than a blueprint. Once you've got that spark going things always turn out differently, but in a good way. I had a playing card-sized clipart silhouette of a burglar, and put it in the centre of the table. "Hırsız var! There's a thief about! I'm not a thief you're a thief! The thief stole ."). Everybody spent m...
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Fethiye WAYK: Turkish Session Diary 13: Thou Shalt Mumble
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Taking language teaching further, by standing on the shoulders of giants. Saturday, 4 October 2014. Turkish Session Diary 13: Thou Shalt Mumble. I'd got funny looks when I demonstrated the sign for TQ Mumble with another group, so with this group I had so far shied away from explicitly suggesting it, although I had hinted at it in principle. However, the wiki article. About it is quite right when it says:. As part of the learning process. You're not building a language skill at all, and there's the added...
