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My name is Scott Thornbury. I'm a teacher and teacher educator, with over 30 years' experience in English language teaching, and an MA from the University of Reading. I am currently Associate Professor of English Language Studies at the New School in New York, where I teach on an on-line MATESOL program. My previous experience includes teaching and teacher training in Egypt, UK, Spain (where I live), and in my native New Zealand. My writing credits include several award-winning books for teachers on language and methodology. I am series editor for the Cambridge Handbooks for Teachers (CUP). I was also the co-founder of the dogme ELT group, whose archived website, called Teaching Unplugged, can be found here.

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Blogs:

May 2009 Delta Publishing Teacher Development Blog

May-June 2009 British Council Guest Writer

 
Conferences, workshops etc  

My avatar is interviewed by Nik Peachey at Edunation in Second Life - you can listen to it here
"My" shelf in the ELT section of Waterstones bookshop, near the University of London.
May 2009: Bahçeşehir University ELT Conference, Istanbul - the audience at my plenary.
CUP stand at Bahçeşehir conference

April 2009: IATEFL Conference, Cardiff: Luke Meddings (co-author), Lindsay Clandfield (series editor) and me with first copy of Teaching Unplugged (DELTA)
Ben Goldstein and Jamie Keddie exchanging copies of their new books on image-based activities. Ben's was edited by me for CUP. Read about it here.
March 2009: ELTEX Conference in Tripoli, Libya. Workshop on 'Teaching without Materials'

October 2008: Seoul, Korea. At the KoTESOL Conference with a bunch of ex-alumni from the School for International Training, VT.

September 2008: English Australia conference, Canberra - plenary on grammar
April 2008: Sanaa, Yemen: Faculty of Education