Talk:Michel Thomas

message: Added a link to one of the citations in World War II section. btw, it's inaccurate to say Thomas' testimony against Barbie was "excluded by the prosecutor." Only a judge can exclude testimony. It would be more accurate to state what actually happened, per news accounts: 
::He would later testify at the 1987 trial of Barbie in Lyon, although the prosecutor subsequently asked jurors to disregard Thomas' testimony. 
Rivenburg (talk) 02:52, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Rivenburg: you were previously banned & blocked and are currently blocked indefinitely from editing this article because " your edits strongly indicate you're on a campaign against the individual Michel Thomas, and your actions to that end are having an acutely detrimental effect on the articles in question."  You must cease & desist from editing this article or risk further censure. 166.205.139.18 (talk) 02:53, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Barbie Trial 

message: It appears that this article is heating up again, with various IPs making various unexplained deletions and changes.  I am concerned about the sourcing of the article.  Based on a fairly cursory check, parts of it appear to be unsourced or sourced to  primary sources, and other material hosted at Michel Thomas' website. For example, there is no source given the Mahl/Knittel issue which has currently in dispute. e.g.   Maybe the info is in the missing second half of the 1950s LA Daily News article hosted on Thomas' website, but there must be better, more recent, more independent sources in any case.  There are plenty of solid secondary, indepedent sources out there, and I believe the referencing should be solidified to these. Given the dispute, I think it might help to quell the back and forth. What do others think?  --Slp1 (talk) 11:52, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Primary sources and other stuff

message: "The rise of the Nazis drove him to leave for the University of Bordeaux in France in 1933, and subsequently the Sorbonne and the University of Vienna.[1]"
Did he really go to Vienna at this stage? Is this supported by the quoted source? The next section about WW2 places him in France. Either way some clarification is in order. Channelwatcher (talk) 18:49, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  University of Vienna 

message: On July 2nd, 2013 99.48.26.193 removed the external link to the recent NYT item about Michel Thomas.  99.48.26.193 is in the Los Angeles area, where the former LA Times humor columnist resides who was banned & blocked from editing this article. If this IP address can be further traced to Orange County it would be further indication of prohibited mischief.
On July 10, 2013 new user Spokannie removed the external link to the recent NYT item about Michel Thomas, without stating a reason.  I have undone this edit, but it's clear that this article is becoming a target for vandalism, or at least tendentious edit-warring.  Appropriate appeals to senior Wikipedians will be forthcoming. NV Researcher (talk) 19:04, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of Citation to NY Times article 

message: Missing from the article on Michel Thomas is a discussion of his method. As this page is contentious, the changes proposed are here for comment:
Michel Thomas Method
Michel Thomas was a language teacher with a specific approach to teaching. Thomas proposed that there is no such thing as "a student with learning difficulties, only teachers with teaching difficulties."P.79, Jonathan Solity, The Learning Revolution, Hodder Educational. According to Dr. Jonathan Solity of University College London, Thomas held that there are three critical components of the teaching environment:
"The first is the analysis of the material to be learned. If the analysis is correct, teaching is easier and the subsequent learning of the pupil ensured.
The second is isolating and structuring the most useful information to teach so that there is a logical progression in the skills, knowledge and concepts taught. Easier skills are taught before more difficult ones and useful information is taught before less useful information. in this context useful information is defined in terms of its generalisability and wider applicability.
The third component of the learning environment is determining the best way of presenting skills, knowledge and concepts to students so that learning is facilitated."ibid 
The method presents the target language by interleaving new with old material, teaching generalization from language principles, contextual diversity, and learning self-correction in an environment that attempts to be stress-free, as the teacher is responsible for learning, not the student.Ibid, Page 109-123 
Serenest (talk) 15:14, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Michel Thomas Method - discussion of a missing information on his pedagogy. 

message: I'm really kind of torn about the Solity book in general, and specifically as a source for the article.
It's a weird book at times -- it feels like most of it was written as an academic book by Solity independent of the MT method, and then Hodder bought it for a rebrand and rewrite to make it an MT book. So it feels like there's a lot of citations (from published academics) removed out, and it's really hard to identify the actual source/origin/motivation for much of what's mentioned in it.
Prof Wrong (talk) 20:01, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Solity book 

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