Scott Thornbury
Thornbury
Scott Thornbury is a New Zealand-born ELT writer, trainer, and speaker whose career has made him one of the field's most recognizable public intellectuals. He has worked internationally, written extensively on grammar and methodology, and built a profile that combines teacher education, blogging, conference speaking, and a gift for argumentative clarity.
Thornbury has a talent for sounding conversational while smuggling in a serious challenge to orthodoxy. He is closely associated with Dogme ELT, but his wider achievement has been spending decades making teachers think again, often with more style than the field strictly expects of itself.
Career
- Worked internationally as a teacher, trainer, and methodology writer
- Became widely known through books, talks, and the An A-Z of ELT blog
- Co-developed Dogme ELT with Luke Meddings and helped give it a public identity
- Built a career on being both useful and provocatively hard to ignore
Published Work
- About Language (1997)
- How to Teach Grammar (1999)
- Teaching Unplugged (with Luke Meddings, 2009)
- Big Questions in ELT (2017)