Osaka JALT:

An Evening with Scott Thornbury - My ten favourite grammar lessons

Date: Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 Time: 6:15 PM - 8:00 PM

Speaker: Scott Thornbury

Description:
It's been my privilege - as a teacher trainer, examiner and former director of studies – to observe some really memorable classes. Let me a share a few of these with you, and let's see if we can draw up some principles for good grammar teaching.

Scott Thornbury is Associate Professor on the MA TESOL program at the New School in New York, and has an MA (TEFL) from the University of Reading. He has taught and trained in a wide range of contexts, including the School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont. He has written extensively on areas of language and methodology, his most recent books being Conversation: From Description to Pedagogy (with Diana Slade, CUP) and The CELTA Course (with Peter Watkins, CUP) . He is currently the series editor of the Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers (CUP). He divides his time between New York and Barcelona.

This presentation is cosponsored by Cambridge University Press. Lecture from 6:15-7:15, followed by wine social until 8:00 pm.

Organization: Osaka Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (Osaka JALT)

Cost: JALT Members: free
Non-members: free (co sponsored by Cambridge University Press)

Venue: Shoin Women's University - Kosaka campus

Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

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