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This is Scott Thornbury's second article for TeachingEnglish.

In this article one teacher gives us her view of how the ideas and principles of a new approach to teaching have shaped her classroom practice.

In this video, Luke Meddings answers questions from the audience about his dogme lesson. This video is from April 2012 in Exeter.

Dogme is an approach to teaching that argues that teaching should focus on the learner and not be driven by the resources available, including course books.

Luke Meddings demonstrates a live dogme lesson with a group of intermediate level learners. He shows some core dogme tasks in action and allows us to gain a sense of the ‘flow’ within an unplugged lesson. April 2012, Exeter.

Teaching Unplugged is the term used for a teaching method and philosophy which has three primary aims: teaching through conversation, taking out external input such as course book and technology and letting the lesson content be driven by the students rather than being pre-planned by the teacher. Based on the ‘Dogme ELT’ approach to teaching, its origins lie in an article written in 2001 by Scott Thornbury and Luke Meddings called ‘The roaring in the chimney’. They later wrote ‘Teaching Unplugged’, a comprehensive guide to this type of teaching and winner of the British Council ELTons award for Innovation in 2010.

Luke Meddings provides a stimulating talk on the main ideas that underpin the teaching unplugged approach to English language teaching (ELT).