Beyond the Sentence - Softcover

Thornbury, Scott

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405064072 ISBN 13: 9781405064071

Publisher: Macmillan Education, 2005

Synopsis

• Introduces discourse and text analysis in a straightforward way, and suggests ways to evaluate learners’ texts in more constructive ways.
• Takes discourse apart to show how it is organised and how this aids communication.
• Examines the features that make spoken and written text coherent.
• Suggests ways to help students work at the level of the text, backed up by practical, fun activities including ready-to-use photocopiable tasks.

About this title

About the Author

Scott Thornbury has broad experience in what is perhaps a narrow field, having worked in the private EFL sector all his working life, as teacher, director of studies, school director and teacher-trainer, now in Spain (where he lives), but previously in Egypt and with short stints in the UK and native New Zealand. All this time he has been working alongside practising teachers, and has never been far from the classroom, although more often as spectator than as protagonist. Teacher education has always been his special interest and was the subject of his MA dissertation at the University of Reading.

Edition details

• Publisher: Macmillan Education
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1405064072
• ISBN 13: 9781405064071
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192