'''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=http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2004/mar/26/tefl.lukemeddings |work=The Guardian |date=2004-03-26 |accessdate = 2009-06-22 }}</ref> Dogme is a communicative approach to language teaching andthat encourages teaching without published textbooks and focuses instead focusing on conversational communication among the learners and the teacher. It has its roots in an article by the language education author, [[Scott Thornbury]].<ref name="Thornbury2000">{{cite web |url=http://www.thornburyscott.com/assets/dogma.pdf |title=A Dogma for EFL |accessdate=2009-06-23 |last=Thornbury |first=Scott |year=2000 |publisher=IATEFL Issues, 153, 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), the connection is not considered close.<ref name="Thornbury2009Critical">{{cite web |url=http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/articles/dogme-nothing-if-not-critical |title=Dogme: nothing if not critical |accessdate=2009-06-23 |last=Thornbury |first=Scott |date=2009-06-10 |publisher=Teaching English}}</ref>
