Scott Thornbury
Language Awareness author
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. His previous experience includes teaching and training in Egypt, UK, Spain, and in his native New Zealand. He has written extensively on areas of language and methodology, his most recent books being Beyond the Sentence: An Introduction to Discourse Analysis, Uncovering Grammar and An A-Z of ELT (all Macmillan), Natural Grammar (OUP) which won a British Council ELT Innovations Award in 2004, and Grammar (OUP), which earned a special mention in the English Speaking Union awards for 2006; Conversation: From Description to Pedagogy (with Diana Slade, CUP) and The CELTA Course (with Peter Watkins, CUP).
Scott is currently the series editor of the Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers (CUP), and divides his time between New York and Barcelona. He wrote the Language Awareness essay on discourse in MED2.