The Practice of English Language Teaching

By Jeremy Harmer

Book Overview

The Practice of English Language Teaching is an essential guide for teachers of English. It explains current pedagogy to teachers who want to access the most relevant ELT practices and incorporate them into their lessons.

The Practice of English Language Teaching includes:

English as a world language Theories of language and language learning Learner characteristics which influence teacher decisions Guidance on managing learning Teaching language systems (grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation) Teaching language skills (speaking, writing, listening and reading) Practical teaching ideas The role of technology (old and new) in the classroom Assessment for language learning in the digital age

About the accompanying DVD which runs for 3 hours

For the fifth edition of The Practice of English Language Teaching, we decided to take a film crew out to see what English language lessons look like in different places, in different situations and, crucially, with different age groups. And so we asked a number of teachers if they would let us film them at work, doing one of their 'normal' lessons.

With that in mind, we went to Ankara in Turkey and filmed two teachers, Asli Nil fer Usluel and Emel Atasoy, working with young learners.

In the UK, we filmed at a residential summer school in the city of Oxford. Varinder Unlu and John Duthie taught teenagers from a variety of different countries and different language backgrounds.

Back in Turkey, we had the chance to record lessons (taught by Zeynep B y ktuna and igdem zen) for adult Turkish students who were getting ready to study at an English-medium university.

In Mexico, at a private language school, we had the good fortune to film teachers Juan Pablo Monf n Jim nez, Ricardo Fajardo Cort s and Araceli Menchaca S nchez with their adult Mexican students.

In each case, after the lesson, I was able to interview the teachers on camera so that I could ask them about their lessons and about the issues that came up as a result of their teaching choices.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1447980255
• ISBN13: 9781447980254
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Pearson Education
• Length: 446 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.4" x 0.9" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Good book!

I think this book is a very good book. It was required for my LING 316 class and I think it is a very good book for teaching methodology and the principles of teaching English such as explaining how to do various activities within the classroom without making some students feel left out. I found the text a little difficult to read as it is designed for graduate students, but I seemed to do well reading it aside from that fact.

good resource for teachers, would-be teachers

For both soon-to-be and established teachers, Harmer's book is a good introduction to the research behind English language learning and thus the more effective ways of teaching. It is short on specific teaching ideas, but that isn't its point. He points out ways that people learn, what some of the difficulties of learning English are and how to work on specific areas. I've found the book very helpful in becoming a better, more knowledgeable EFL teacher.

A good guide to the principles of Teaching English

The Preface points out that the target audience of this book is postgraduate students, teachers in inservice training and practicing teachers. In other words people who have had some training in the past which they are now looking to put into practice. This is not my situation. I have none the less found the book to be very useful as a guide to the practical principles to be followed in Enlgish language teaching. Though it does not include very much in the way of sample activities or grammer rules, the principles the book discusses, if creativly applied, have the potential to offer a much more versitile range of activities then a collection straight forward lesson plans to follow or model after. Admitedly I have not yet started teaching so I have not yet been able try it out.

Exceptional service!

I needed the book two days after I ordered it because I was going out of the country. And I needed to take it with me! It arrived in one day. I was pleased, and feeling very fortunate.