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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Scott Thornbury is an internationally recognized academic and teacher trainer in the field of English Language Teaching . Along with Luke Meddings, Thornbury is credited with developing the Dogme language teaching approach, which emphasizes meaningful interaction and emergent language over prepared materials and following an explicit syllabus. Thornbury has written over a dozen books on ELT methodology. Two of these, 'Natural Grammar' and 'Teaching Unplugged', have won the British Council's "ELTon" Award for Innovation, the top award in the industry .
Scott Thornbury's Published Works
Published Works
- How to Teach Vocabulary (2002) (1165)
- How to Teach Speaking (2005) (909)
- How to Teach Grammar (2000) (309)
- Teachers research teacher talk (1996) (170)
- Reformulation and reconstruction: tasks that promote ‘noticing’ (1997) (169)
- Conversation: From Description to Pedagogy (2006) (149)
- Classroom Management Techniques (2012) (89)
- CLIL Activities: A Resource for Subject and Language Teachers (2012) (78)
- Teaching Unplugged: Dogme in English Language Teaching (2009) (75)
- An A-Z of ELT (2006) (68)
- Conversation: From Description to Pedagogy: Dedication (2006) (64)
- Language Learning with Technology: Ideas for Integrating Technology in the Classroom (2013) (56)
- An A-Z of ELT: A dictionary of terms and concepts used in English Language Teaching (2006) (55)
- Metaphors we work by: EFL and its metaphors (1991) (55)
- Beyond the Sentence: Introducing Discourse Analysis (2005) (46)
- Language and Mobility: Unexpected Places (2013) (41)
- The Lexical Approach: a journey without maps (1998) (32)
- Watching the whites of their eyes: the use of teaching-practice logs (1991) (29)
- Intercultural language activities (2010) (29)
- Comments on Marianne Celce‐Murcia, Zoltán Dörnyei, and Sarah Thurrell's “Direct Approaches in L2 Instruction: A Turning Point in Communicative Language Teaching?”: A Reader Reacts … (1998) (29)
- What can a corpus tell us about discourse (2010) (28)
- About Language: Tasks for Teachers of English (1997) (28)
- Conversation: From Description to Pedagogy: Author index (2006) (26)
- Language Learning with Digital Video (2014) (24)
- Essential Teacher Knowledge (2013) (23)
- Point and counterpoint. The unbearable lightness of EFL (2001) (18)
- Having a good jaw: voice-setting phonology (1993) (18)
- Teaching Grammar Creatively (2007) (16)
- The Unbearable Lightness of EFL (2002) (16)
- Lesson art and design (1999) (13)
- Teaching vocabulary using short texts (2001) (12)
- Realizing Autonomy: Practice and Reflection in Language Education Contexts (2011) (12)
- Memory Activities for Language Learning (2011) (11)
- Communicative language teaching in theory and practice (2016) (10)
- Training in instructional conversation (2002) (10)
- Language teaching methodology (2011) (9)
- The Celta Course (2007) (9)
- The Principled Communicative Approach: Seven Criteria for Success (2016) (8)
- Educational Technology: Assessing its Fitness for Purpose (2015) (7)
- Communicative Activities for EAP (2011) (7)
- Using the raw materials. A Dogme approach to teaching language (2001) (7)
- The CELTA course: Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults trainee book (2007) (6)
- Penny Ur's 100 Teaching Tips (2016) (5)
- The CELTA Certificate in English language teaching to adultscourse. (2007) (5)
- Working with images : a resource book for the language classroom (2008) (5)
- Lighten up: a reply to Angeles Clemente (2001) (4)
- Wath good is second language acquisition theory (2008) (3)
- English teaching essential: grammar (2004) (3)
- Dogme: hype, evolution or intelligent design? (2013) (3)
- From Scott Thornbury (2002) (2)
- English Language Teaching Textbooks: Content, Consumption, Production (2015) (2)
- The standby book : activities for the language classroom (1997) (2)
- The CELTA course: Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults trainer's manual (2007) (2)
- What do teachers need to know about language (2015) (2)
- Chapter 21 Speaking Instruction (2012) (2)
- Beyond the Sentence (2005) (1)
- Slow-release grammar (2009) (1)
- Conversation: From Description to Pedagogy: Teaching conversation: A history (2006) (1)
- English Grammar TodayEnglish Grammar Today Workbook (2012) (1)
- Reading and writing as arithmetic. Is learning a language like learning maths (2000) (1)
- Conversation: From Description to Pedagogy: Teaching conversation: Approach, design, procedure and process (2006) (1)
- Scott Thornbury's 101 Grammar Questions (2019) (0)
- The body remembers (2013) (0)
- Images of teaching (1998) (0)
- Materials for developing speaking skills (2022) (0)
- Natural grammar / Scott Thornbury (2004) (0)
- The TESOL Quarterly invites commentary on current trends or practices in the TESOL profession. It also welcomes responses or rebuttals to any articles or remarks published here in The Forum or elsewhere in the Quarterly. (2016) (0)
- Material-Free Teaching (2003) (0)
- The vocabulary of conversation (2006) (0)
- Conversation: From Description to Pedagogy: Acquiring L2 conversational competence (2006) (0)
- Conversation: From Description to Pedagogy: The discourse features of conversation (2006) (0)
- About Language (2017) (0)
- Conversation: From Description to Pedagogy: The grammar of conversation (2006) (0)
- Conversation: From Description to Pedagogy: Genres in conservation: Storytelling and gossiping (2006) (0)
- Conversation: From Description to Pedagogy: Acquiring L1 conversational competence (2006) (0)
- The Territorialization of Airspace in the East and South China Seas: Unraveling the Security Dilemma (2020) (0)
- Methodology texts and the construction of teachers’ practical knowledge (2019) (0)
- Conversation: From Description to Pedagogy: Characterizing conversation (2006) (0)
- How (not) to fatten a pig (2018) (0)
- Ten questions for Scott Thornbury (2013) (0)
- Perspectives on grammar and the syllabus from teacher's club website: Syllabus design: what's wrong with grammar? (2002) (0)
- Conversation: From Description to Pedagogy: References (2006) (0)
- The pre-intermediate choice: work book (2014) (0)
- Conversation: From Description to Pedagogy: Introduction (2006) (0)
- Chapter 20 Learning Grammar (2018) (0)
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