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Scott Thornbury

Videos & Podcasts

Videos & Podcasts

The New School. 2010. Seven Ways of Looking at Grammar. The New School.

KoreaTESOL. 2012. Scott Thornbury - The ABC of SLA. Pecha Kucha, KOTESOL 2012.

The New School. 2013. Communicative Language Teaching: Jeremy Harmer and Scott Thornbury. The New School.

The New School. 2014. Fossilization: Is It Terminal, Doctor?

Scott Thornbury. 2014. Unpacking a Text.

British Council Armenia. 2016. The Secret History of Methods.

The New School. 2016. The Second Language Acquisition (SLA). Hall of Fame, The New School.

British Council Armenia. 2016. Seven Things Beginning with ‘M’.

The New School. 2017. Communicative Language Teaching: 40 Years On: A Public Presentation by Scott Thornbury.

British Council Armenia. 2017. Teaching Unplugged.

Teaching House. 2018. Scott Thornbury - Joy of Short Texts.

Cambridge University Press ELT. 2019. Scott Thornbury - What‘s the Latest Method?

Cambridge University Press ELT. 2019. IATEFL Conference, Liverpool. How to Answer Learners‘ Grammar Questions.

Cambridge University Press ELT. 2020. Play it again Sam: The Value of Task Repetition.

IH Torun. 2020. IH Torun ONLINE Teacher Training Day #7: “10 online Communicative Activities” - Scott Thornbury.

Cambridge Brazil. 2020. #CambridgeDay2020 - My 7 Favourite Language Teaching Methods.

We’re All In This Together. 2020. Interview with Scott Thornbury on ‘We are All in This Lockdown Together’.

Teaching House. 2021. Teaching House Presents Scott Thornbury: The Long Conversation.

Teacher Development Webinar. 2022. Scott Thornbury: Dogme Frees the Spirit.

Troika Experience. 2022. Scott Thornbury in Conversation with Luke Meddings.

2014. BrELT. Interview with Scott Thornbury at 14th BRAZ-TESOL

2017. Darren Elliott. An Interview with Scott Thornbury

2018. The TEFLology Podcast. TEFL Interviews 12: Scott Thornbury on the ELT Industry

2021. We’re All In This Together. Interview with Scott Thornbury on ‘We're All In This Together’

2022. The Big R. Interview with Scott Thornbury

Podcasts

2021. Learnyourenglish.com. Episode 33: Teacher Talking Time. (source)

Other videos

2020. CUP. Grammar Teaching: Explanation or Discovery? (source)

2022. TESOL 2022: Dogme ELT Comes of Age. (source)

2022. IH Bucharest. Modern Languages are Not Dead Languages. (source)

DogmeELT: Its Primary Sources and Influences. (source)

Interviews

2020. International Teacher Development Institute (iTDi). Scott Thornbury interview on Dogme ELT. (source)

Scott Thornbury

Recommended books

Teacher.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner.

1963. Harmondsworth: Penguin. (source)

Teaching as a Subversive Activity.

Neil Postman, Charles Weingartner.

1969. Harmondsworth: Penguin. (source)

Pedagogy of the Oppressed.

Paulo Freire.

1070. Harmondsworth: Penguin. (source)

Teaching Languages: A Way and Ways.

Earl Wilson Stevick.

1980. Rowley,MA: Newbury House. (source)

Interaction in the Language Curriculum: Awareness,Autonomy and Authenticity.

Leo Van Lier.

1996. London: Longman. (source)

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.

— Jeremy Harmer
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