Free Tefl  A gentle silence has descended on T-ching, writes
Luke Meddings. (I hope it wasn't my comment about your comment
about the football that did it, kammera. It was meant to be
funny, and gentle: like silence.)  Someone out there has been
engaged in a T-ching-related experiment: a whole week of classes
at a British Council-accredited school devoted to coursebook-
free teaching. I'm happy to admit that Dan Humm-Soriano is
someone I know, someone, moreover, who survived my management
"skills" to become a Director of Studies (DoS) himself.  What
intrigues me is that Dan, now DoS at United International
College in London, developed a healthy scepticism about dogme
once the initial buzz had worn off. "I always felt it lacked
real classroom research," he explains. "It was just people who
enjoyed doing it saying how much they enjoyed doing it."  Well,
hands up to that - but Dan wanted to know more and did a year of
his own classroom-based active research. The techniques he
developed in our dogme-friendly schoo