Day 4

Plenary by Scott Thornbury
1966 and all that: a critical history of ELT

The video can be watched at:
http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2016/session/plenary-scott-thornbury

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You cannot but be carried away by this Talk!!!
As a "Mr Grammar" is speaking about "the Archeology of ESL"!!!

Do you know who or what is or are "Grammar McNuggets"?

Can you see any connections between 1066 and 1966?

What unites TESOL - N.Chomsky - Psycholinguistics - P.Newmark?

Can you build "the bridge" between "communication" and "psychology" in ESL?

How would you continue the statement: Languages should be taught like a  ....?
a) vocabulary
b) skill
c) grammar

No doubt you know
the Era of Space Exploration,
the Era of the Cold War and the Iron Curtain,
the Era of the Internet.
But ..........  do you know the ''Mistakes-Out!!'' Era (1967)?

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You can find answers to these and many other intriguing questions about language teaching watching this Talk!
Or you can brush up your knowledge of language teaching methodology!

In any case - it is a useful Fun!!!!