Re: [Tango-L] Is this good 'teaching'?

2009-03-21 Thread Trini y Sean (PATangoS)
--- On Tue, 3/17/09, Mario wrote: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQKtQxz0mV8 > What I disagree with in this video, is alienating the > student from an already asimulated part of him/herself. Taking what > would be familiar and making it foreign.. Mario, I have no idea where you get that id

Re: [Tango-L] Is this good 'teaching'?

2009-03-21 Thread Sergey Kazachenko
There's a comment right under the video explaining what's going on. Apparently they are being filmed by a camera and the goggles show them how they look from the side. While I have no idea how effective this particular method, I can tell there was more than one occasion when I looked at a video of

[Tango-L] Is this good 'teaching'?

2009-03-21 Thread Mario
Is good 'teaching' all about making the simple difficult? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQKtQxz0mV8 What I've learned from studying language acquisition is that the 'whole' is bigger than the sum of it's parts. Chopping a dance up into it's parts in order to learn to dance, has it's pluses and mi