TEFL conspiracy theory of the day

Posted on 12/11/2008 by alexcase

Talking of TEFL jargon , am I the only one to notice that since Scott Thornbury wrote “An A to Z of ELT” his other books have suddenly become full of more jargon than you can shake a dictionary at? Has he discovered a marketing method that is even better than the recent tendancy of textbooks to “just happen to mention” graded readers and dictionaries from the same publisher?

I’m presently enjoying the feast of jargon that is Conversation: From Description to Pedagogy, a book you can read a surprisingly large amount of by clicking on the top link on this Google search page.

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2 Responses to TEFL conspiracy theory of the day

  1. David V.'s avatar David V. says:
    18/11/2008 at 06:40

    TFTS as we say in TEFL (Thornbury for Thornbury’s sake). Has he come up with a fancy name for a grammar auction yet?

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  2. nicky's avatar nicky says:
    20/11/2008 at 13:36

    i checked today, the “top link” is no longer the “top link” on the google page now, for some reason, but here it is in case anyone’s wondering:

    http://books.google.com/books?id=V_Q9JnIqqVcC&dq=conversation+scott+thornbury&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=02MOjE_jed&sig=tqT2ecvi94KqZjRjJq08a8W4XvU&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result#PPR5,M1

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