Scott Thornbury Books

The CELTA Course offers a comprehensive preparation program for the CELTA syllabus, endorsed by Cambridge ESOL. It features structured sections including input sessions covering learner contexts, teaching methods, and professional development, alongside teaching practice and classroom observation. The Trainee Book provides essential materials and guidance, while the Trainer's Manual offers strategies for effective teaching. An introductory questionnaire and a concluding review test ensure trainees grasp key concepts and terminology, enhancing their learning experience.

Focusing on the dynamics of English conversation, this book explores its significance for English Language Teaching (ELT) classrooms. It delves into the nuances of conversational skills and their impact on language acquisition, offering valuable insights for educators. The text emphasizes practical applications and strategies to enhance conversational competence among learners, making it a vital resource for teachers aiming to foster effective communication in their students.

Every teacher and teacher trainer needs this bookScott Thornbury's insightful text is an alphabetical list of key ELT terms and concepts, and outlines their relevance to the field. An A-Z of ELT covers terms and concepts such as grammar, lexis, phonology, discourse, methodology, theory and practice. Each entry is categorised, described and explained in terms of its importance and relevance to ELT. Each definition is authoritative, clear and concise, and cross-referenced where relevant. Who is An A-Z of ELT for? • Trainee teachers for whom the terminology and concepts may be new• Teachers who want to refresh or clarify their knowledge, find out more abut the history of teaching methodology or the views on teaching concepts and methodology• Teacher-trainers who want to give clear definitions of terms and concepts

"The New A-Z of ELT is a practical and informative guide that is indispensable to teachers and teacher trainers of all levels of experience. The new edition has been revised and restructured to take recent developments in language teaching into account. It is a fully cross-referenced, alphabetical guide to ELT that defines and explains essential language teaching concepts and terminology from fields including grammar, linguistics, discourse analysis, digital pedagogies, and phonology."--Back cover

Dieses umfassende alphabetisch geordnete Nachschlagewerk für Lehrer und Studenten im ELT-Bereich wurde neu bearbeitet und ergänzt. Es bietet klare und ausführliche Definitionen zu den Themen Grammatik, Phonologie, Lexikologie und Diskurs. Die Einträge einschließlich gängiger Abkürzungen sind nach Themengebieten geordnet und mit Querverweisen versehen. Begriffe, die in einer Definition erscheinen und selbst Schlagworte sind, sind fett gedruckt.

A complete and essential activity-based guide to ELT classroom management. Classroom Management Techniques offers a huge range of practical techniques to help teachers make the most of their teaching space and get students working in more focused ways. The book helps teachers anticipate and avoid problems in the classroom, allowing more time to be devoted to meaningful activities. By analysing the classroom from three perspectives: the classroom, the teacher and the learners, the book presents a ground-breaking analysis of 14 kinds of teacher intervention, allowing teachers to examine the way they communicate with learners. It also deals with critical teaching issues including mixed level classes, difficult physical conditions and discipline.

This book offers innovative strategies for incorporating students' native languages into language learning environments. By leveraging the linguistic skills students already possess, it aims to enhance engagement and comprehension. The ideas presented encourage teachers to create a more inclusive and effective classroom atmosphere, fostering a deeper connection with the language being taught while respecting and valuing the diverse linguistic backgrounds of students.

As teachers we often talk about 'covering' grammar points. Scott Thornbury explains why it is more useful to think about how we 'uncover' grammar, to reveal the workings of the system to our students and encourage them to notice what is going on. The book uses extracts from exchanges in real classrooms, authentic texts and language teaching tasks. It provides lots of practical activities so that you can immediately and easily put the ideas to work in your classroom.

Teachers of English need not only to have a good productive command of the language; they also need to know a good deal about the way the language works. This book asks: 'What is it that a teacher needs to know about English in order to teach it effectively?' It leads teachers to awareness of the language through a wide range of tasks which involve them in analysing English to discover its underlying system. The book consists of 28 units, each containing around ten tasks, plus a diagnostic introductory unit. Units start at phoneme level and progress through words, phrases and sentences on to complete texts. Task-types include recognition, categorisation, matching, explanation, and application tasks. Throughout the book, the language is illustrated wherever possible from authentic sources, so that the teacher can be sure that the English being studied represents current usage.