If you're interested to know more about how dogme can actually work in a class situation, here's a video of Luke Meddings (co-author with Scott Thornbury of Teaching Unplugged) teaching a live session. Also included are his own reflections of how he thought the session went.
Oli Beddall offers a Dogme cookbook which is a series of useful suggestions for activities you can do in class followed up by ideas for focussing on the language that students produce. And if you're not convinced that the dogme approach is for you, check out the comments at the end of the post and you'll find that you're in good company.
In this post, Chia Suan Chong gives us an anatomy of a class in which the impetus was provided by photos her students had taken and how she (and her class) dealt with the language that emerged. And if you like her style, here's another post from her - Only in a Dogme class…
And to keep the balance, finally here's a post from Stephen Greene who feels that there's been an overload recently of dogme doings.
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