Beyond the Sentence

Beyond the Sentence describes the features and functions of different types of texts and shows how to incorporate them into language teaching. It examines what makes spoken and written text coherent and shows how an understanding of this can help students deal with the language needs of work, study and exams. It also provides practical activities that can be used in the classroom to help students work with texts. - Provides a straightforward introduction to discourse and text analysis. - Suggests ways to evaluate and use learners'texts in more constructive ways. - Contains a wide range of practical ideas and photocopiable tasks that are ready to use in the classroom. Scott Thornbury teaches on the on-line MA TESOL program at the New School, New York. He has also taught and trained in Spain (where he lives), Egypt, the UK and in his native New Zealand. He has written a number of prize-winning books on grammar and methodology. His present interests include discourse and corpus analysis, classroom interaction, second language emergence and critical pedagogy.