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In an interview on 2 August, 2020, Scott Thornbury revised conversation as being central to the role of Dogme, saying instead that it should be text-driven. Tags: citing a blog or free web host Visual edit |
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Conversation is seen as central to language learning within the Dogme framework, because it is the "fundamental and universal form of language" and so is considered to be "language at work". Since real life conversation is more interactional than it is transactional, Dogme places more value on communication that promotes social interaction. Dogme also places more emphasis on a discourse-level (rather than sentence-level) approach to language, as it is considered to better prepare learners for real-life communication, where the entire conversation is more relevant than the analysis of specific utterances. Dogme considers that the learning of a skill is co-constructed within the interaction between the learner and the teacher. In this sense, teaching is a conversation between the two parties. As such, Dogme is seen to reflect Tharp's view that "to most truly teach, one must converse; to truly converse is to teach".<ref>{{Harvnb|Meddings|Thornbury|2009|pp=8–10}}</ref>
==== Revision to the concept of Dogme being conversation driven ====
However, the immutability of conversation as one of the "pillars" of Dogme was called into question in a 2020 interview with Scott Thornbury. When asked what might happen should a student not wish to engage in classroom conversation, Thornbury suggested that saying Dogme had to be "conversation driven", might have been a "mistake": <blockquote>I think one of the mistakes we made was making conversation part of the... "three pillars", and what really should be said, is that Dogme is driven not by conversations, but by texts... texts meaning both written and spoken. <ref>{{Citation|title=Scott Thornbury interview - video.mp4|url=https://drive.google.com/file/d/1r6cpv6Ky9YZIoy7rN0wp_OQZHutoJnGN/view?usp=sharing&usp=embed_facebook|access-date=2020-09-28}}</ref></blockquote>Arguably, this suggestion that Dogme language teaching should be seen as "text driven" rather than "conversation driven" goes some way to cater for more reflective learners. ▼
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