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'''Dogme language teaching''' is considered to be both a methodology and a movement.<ref name="Guardian2004">{{cite news |first=Meddings |last=Luke |title=Throw away your textbooks |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2004/mar/26/tefl.lukemeddings |work=The Guardian |date=2004-03-26 |access-date = 2009-06-22 }}</ref> Dogme is a communicative approach to language teaching that encourages teaching without published textbooks and focuses instead on conversational communication among learners and teacher. It has its roots in an article by the language education author, [[Scott Thornbury]].<ref name="Thornbury2000">{{cite journal |url=http://nebula.wsimg.com/fa3dc70521483b645f4b932209f9db17?AccessKeyId=186A535D1BA4FC995A73&disposition=0&alloworigin=1 |title=A Dogma for EFL |access-date=2009-06-23 |last=Thornbury |first=Scott |date=February–March 2000 |publisher=IATEFL Issues |issue=153 |page=2}}</ref> The Dogme approach is also referred to as "Dogme ELT", which reflects its origins in the [[English language learning and teaching|ELT]] (English language teaching) sector. Although Dogme language teaching gained its name from an analogy with the [[Dogme 95]] film movement (initiated by [[Lars von Trier]]) in which the directors, actors, and actresses commit a "vow of chastity" to minimize their reliance on special effects that may create unauthentic feelings from the viewers ,<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Nguyen|first=Nhat Quang|last2=Phu|first2=Hung Bui|date=2020-09-30|title=The Dogme Approach: A Radical Perspective in Second Language Teaching in the Post-Methods Era|url=https://jle.hse.ru/article/view/10563|journal=Journal of Language and Education|language=en|volume=6|issue=3|pages=173–184|doi=10.17323/jle.2020.10563|issn=2411-7390|doi-access=free}}</ref>, the connection is not considered close.<ref name="Thornbury2009Critical">{{cite web|last=Thornbury|first=Scott|date=2009-06-10|title=Dogme: nothing if not critical|url=http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/articles/dogme-nothing-if-not-critical|access-date=2009-06-23|publisher=Teaching English}}</ref>.

==Key principles==