by Scott Thornbury · Oxford University Press España, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780194386241
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«Natural Grammar» is Scott Thornbury's English grammar manual published by Oxford University Press España in paperback (225 pages, in English).
Instead of grouping grammar by verb tenses or prepositions, the book takes one hundred key English words and shows, for each, the usage patterns, common collocations and fixed expressions they generate. Each entry combines explanations and exercises, with examples drawn from real corpora, to move from the word to the idiomatic phrase.
Its subtitle is «The key words of English and how they work». This edition is from January 2004.
For students and teachers of English as a foreign language seeking an approach to grammar from usage and words.
Scott Thornbury is an internationally recognized academic and teacher trainer in the field of English Language Teaching (ELT). Along with Luke Meddings, Thornbury is credited with developing the Dogme language teaching approach, which emphasizes meaningful interaction and emergent language over prepared materials and following an explicit syllabus. Thornbury has written over a dozen books on ELT methodology. Two of these, 'Natural Grammar' and 'Teaching Unplugged', have won the British Council's "ELTon" Award for Innovation, the top award in the industry.
