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- Date: Mon, 1 Jun 92 20:19:38 -0400
- From: dmilne@KEAN.UCS.MUN.CA
- Subject: ELEM-IG Schedule
- Sender: GAELIC Language Bulletin Board <GAELIC-L@irlearn.ucd.ie>
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- Some comments on our proposed schedule for the lessons, and how
- I will be labelling them.
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- At the moment, I plan to post a lesson Tuesday morning and
- Friday morning. If this turns out to be overwhelming (for me or for
- you), we may revert to once a week, on Tuesdays.
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- For the Tuesday posting, I would like to receive "answers" by
- Saturday morning, so I can work on them on the weekend. For the
- Friday posting, I would expect to get them the following Tuesday
- or Wednesday. While the lessons are cumulative, I don't think it
- will prove to be necessary to have the answers from #1 in before posting
- Lesson #2, or #3 before #4 ... so the overlap won't hurt. I will post
- answers on the following Tuesdays and Fridays, but if you aren't ready
- for them yet, and can resist peeking, you can ignore them until you
- have had time to work through your own answers. If some of you can
- only work on the weekends, once a week posting of answers is OK with
- me. The lessons are reasonably short, and I think you will find that
- doing two at once is not too much of a strain.
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- LABELLING:
- I plan to use the same pattern of labels for each lesson:
- #1-A, #1-B, #1-C, #2-A, #2-B, #2-C, ... In each case, the -A will
- be the initial presentation of the lesson, with the exercise questions
- only; the -B will be the answers, with some commentary on them; and
- the -C will be for any further comments that people want to make,
- including native speakers contributing their insights and corrections.
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- Thus, if you want to avoid looking at the answers until you're ready,
- avoid the -B's!
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- POSTING ANSWERS
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- I thought it would be best to have people post their answers
- directly to me -- otherwise Gaelic-L will be clogged up with many repetitive
- screeds which will drive the non-learners to distraction!
-
- If I find I can't handle the traffic, either we can organize
- others to help ---or-- I could take queries only, either before or after
- the -B is posted.
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- For now, however, please post answers to me. It is helpful to
- me to see what people are writing, as feedback to what I should be doing.
- Also, I think it helps to motivate learning ... to have to commit pen to
- paper (well, key to keyboard).
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- POSTING LESSONS
- Tim asked if we might post the lessons directly to the elem-ig
- group rather than to Gaelic-L. Marion informs us that it would help Gaelic-L
- to post the lessons there, so we expect to continue to do this. Also, it
- occurs to me that others may want to join later on, and would be able to
- find back lessons in the Gaelic-L archives.
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- Dorothy
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