Scott Thornbury
Articles
Articles
Articles
1991. EFL and Its Metaphors: Metaphors We Work By. ELT Journal. 1991. 45/3 pp. 193-200. (source)
1991. Watching the Whites of Their Eyes: The Use of Teaching Practice Logs. English Language Teaching Journal. 45/2 pp.140-146. (source).
1993. Having a Good Jaw: Voice-setting Phonology. ELT Journal. 1993. 47/2 pp. 126-131. (source)
1995. Grammar, Power and Bottled Water. IATEFL Newsletter. 1995. 140. (source)
1996. Paying Lip-service to CLT. EA Journal. 1996. 14/1 pp.51-63. (source)
1996. "ARC": Does it Have Restricted Use? The Teacher Trainer. 10/3. 7-11. (source).
1996. Teachers Research Teacher Talk. ELT Journal. 50/4 pp.279-289 (source).
1997. Reformulation and Reconstruction: Tasks that Promote Noticing. ELT Journal. 1997. 51/4 pp.326-335. (source)
1998. A Journey Without Maps? Lexical Approach. Modern English Teacher. 1998. 7 pp.7-13. (source)
1998. A Language Learner’s Diary. The IH Journal. 1998. 5 pp.5-7. (source)
1998. Images of Teaching. English Teaching Professional. 8 pp.36-37. (source).
1998. 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.... TESOL Quarterly. 32 pp.109-116 (source).
1999. Lesson Art and Design. ELT Journal. 1999. 53/1 pp.4-11. (source)
1999. Window Dressing vs Cross-dressing in the ELT Subculture. Folio. 1999. 5/2 pp. 15-17. (source)
2000. A Dogma for EFL. IATEFL Issue. 2000. 153:2. (source)
2000. Targeting Accuracy, Fluency and Complexity. ET Professional. 2000. 16 pp. 3-6. (source)
2000. Reading and Writing as Arithmetic. Modern English Teacher. 2000. 9/4 pp. 12-15. (source)
2000. Under What Circumstances do We Apply the Word "Scientific" in Language Learning? A Roundtable. (With Earl Stevick, Roslyn Young, Robert Nusbaum). Prism: A Learning Journal, 5 Spring pp.7-138. (source).
2000. Walking While Chewing Gum: A Review. IH Journal. Issue 9 October pp. 5-7/. EA Journal. 18/1 pp.89-95. (source).
2001. Teaching Unplugged (or: That's Dogme with an E). It's for Teachers. Issue 1 February pp.10-14. (source).
Scott Thornbury, Luke Meddings. 2001. Dogme Out in the Open. IATEFL Issues. 161 June–July. 6. (source).
Scott Thornbury, Luke Meddings 2001. Coursebooks: The Roaring in the Chimney. Modern English Teacher. 10/3 July pp.11-13 (source).
Scott Thornbury, Luke Meddings. 2001. Using the Raw Materials. Modern English Teacher. 10/4 October pp.40-43 (source).
2001. The Unbearable Lightness of EFL, and Lighten Up: A Reply to Angeles Clemente. English Language Teaching Journal. 55/4 pp. 391-396, pp.403-404. (source).
2002. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The Teacher. (Poland) 2002. 2 pp.12-13. (source)
Scott Thornbury, Luke Meddings. 2002. Using a Coursebook the Dogme Way. Modern English Teacher. 11/1 January pp.36-40. (source).
2002. Don't Mention the War! Taboo Topics and the Alternative Textbook. It's for Teachers. Issue 3 February pp.35-37. (source).
2002. Teaching Complexity. Aspectos Didácticos de Inglés. 8 pp.67-76. (source).
Scott Thornbury, Nerina Conte. 2003. Materials-free Teaching. English Teaching Professional. 26 pp.57-59. (source).
2003. Catalan for Beginners: A Learner's Account. IH Journal. Spring pp.19-23. (source).
2004. Big Words, Small Grammar. ET Professional. 2004. 31 pp.10-11. (source)
2004. Grammar. ET Professional. 2004. 32 pp.40-41. (source)
2005. Dogme: Dancing in the Dark? Folio. 2005. 9/2. pp.3-5. (source)
2005. Awareness, Appropriation and Autonomy. ET Professional. 2005. 40. pp. 11-13. (source)
2007. Language Awareness: Discourse. Macmillan English Dictionary (New edition) Basingstoke: Macmillan.(source).
2008. Language as an Emergent System. In English. British Council: Spring/Summer. (source).
2008. What Good is SLA Theory? English Teaching Professional. Issue 55 March. (source).
2009. Slow-release Grammar. English Teaching Professional. Issue 61 March. (source).
2009. Why is English Grammar so Difficult (Not)? Braz-Tesol Newsletter. December. (source).
2013. The Body Remembers. Teaching Times. TESOL France: La Rentree (source).
2015. What do Teachers Need to Know About Language? English Teaching Professional. Issue 100 September. (source).
2018. Learning Grammar. Burns, A., Richards, J.C. (eds.) The Cambridge Guide to Learning English as a Second Language. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press. (source)
2022. Methodology Texts and the Construction of Teachers' Practical Knowledge. Walsh, S., Mann, S. (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Language Teacher Education. London: Routledge. (source).
Article Sources
Talks and Blogs
A-Z of ELT: Scott Thornbury maintains an internationally popular blog ‘A-Z: A-Z of ELT’ covering an ever-extending range of topics. The blog is an adjunct to his book of the same title and is available via his personal website: A-Z of ELT
The (De-) Fossilization Diaries: Scott Thornbury maintains a blog detailing his trials and tribulations trying to learn Spanish. It is available via his personal website:
The (De-) Fossilization Diaries
Scott Thornbury Talks: 30 talks are available on Scott’s website (in downloadable PDF format): Scott Thornbury Talks
Place in HLT
From 2007 to 2020, Scott Thornbury designed and taught a Masters in TESOL at the New School in New York and was Academic Director at the International Teacher Development Institute. He is in high demand as a conference speaker and travels extensively to give workshops and presentations. He is a trustee for the Hands Up Project, which promotes drama activities in English for children in under-resourced regions of the Arab world. Recently, he was working for Mosaik Education, training teachers of refugees in the Middle East in how to integrate communicative activities into their online classes.
