Product Description

• How to Teach English provides practical coverage of specific methods, lesson planning, using textbooks and coping with the unexpected!
• Includes a clear introduction to describing language so that you can understand technical words relating to grammar and pronunciation
• Ideal for experienced and inexperienced teachers and CELTA candidates

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #89294 in Books
• Published on: 1998-07-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

About the Author

Jeremy Harmer has taught in Mexico and the UK where he is currently an occasional lecturer at Anglia Polytechnic University. He has trained teachers and offered seminars all over the world. A writer of both course material and methodology, he is the author of methodology titles including How to Teach English (1998), The Practice of English Language Teaching (3rd edition 2001) and How to teach Writing (2004) ­ all published by Pearson Education Ltd. He is the General Editor of the Longman methodology list and hosts a teacher development website at http://www.eltforum.com/

Customer Reviews

A good all rounder for anyone starting off on a TEFL career
This book is a good basis for anyone starting off on a TEFL career and/or studying for the TEFL certificate. The chapters are simply written and run through the basic approach to teaching english. It gives a good introduction but is really a one-off read and you are unlikely to use it as a reference book during your career.

useful introduction
I read this in preparation for CELTA and subsequently when reviewing what I was doing in my classes. Useful. NB Much more practical than Harmer's 'The Practice of English Teaching', which is a dreadful book...

Good introduction
This is a good basic introduction but I can't rate this any higher than three stars because there is little advice within this book on practical teaching skills which I would have expected from the title. The text is somewhat turgid but is improved by the helpful use of different typography to highlight section headings and important ideas raised in each chapter. The practical examples used are quite helpful. A useful complementary text to this book is Jim Scrivener's 'Learning Teaching' which has much more to say on the practical issues of teaching a class.