TEFL conspiracy theory of the day
Talking of TEFL jargon (as I was two posts ago, the brief aside in between is apparently technically called an “insertion sequence”, fnaah fnaah), 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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November 18th, 2008 at 6:40 am
TFTS as we say in TEFL (Thornbury for Thornbury’s sake). Has he come up with a fancy name for a grammar auction yet?
November 20th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
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