Oxford has put on the market its third edition of Jeremy Harmer´s latest best seller among teachers of English: “ The Practice of English teaching”.
In twelve chapters, the author offers the reader a brief description of the first principles underlying the instruction of English as a foreign language.
He starts by making an accoun if the most influential linguists and psychologgists and the fundations of their appearanc to language teaching. Based on all these theories, Harmer redefines the roles of teacher and student, stressing the importance of environment and motivation in their interaction within the language classroom. Moreover, he provides us with examples of typical classroom situations and how deal with them, as well as creative teachingresources which have proved very practical when applied to real-life learning conditions.
Personally, I found “ The practice of English teaching” really enriching. Apart from making me aware of the old and new conceptions of learner, teacher and subject matter, its advice made me confident in front of the class at the moment of practice.
I would highly recommend this book to any would be teacher of English, though not exclusively of tehm: it is worth reading for those who are educators, too. It may make them more knowledgeable of their profession and more practical and resourceful at work. Certainly, this can bring about nothing but the betterment of our profession.
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