Jeremy Harmer: Biography
Jeremy
Harmer is a teacher, teacher trainer and author. Among his many books are
the classics, The Practice of English Language Teaching (now in its third
edition) and How to Teach English, both published by Longman. He is the
general editor of the Longman methodology series, and hosts the popular
teacher development site ELT Forum (http://www.eltforum.com/).
Jeremy Harmer: TACON
04, Plenary
Do
we really know how to teach English?
How do we know what good teaching is? Especially when theorists and
sometimes methodologists -disagree so fundamentally about how things are
best achieved! Taking the concept of 宯oticing� as an example this talk
will look at what we can be sure about, and what is more open to interpretation.
Jeremy Harmer: TACON 04, Learner Independence SIG Session
The
Wonder of a Good Dictionary
Students and teachers have no better classroom and self-study resource than
a good dictionary. This session will first look at ways of getting
students to love dictionaries, before demonstrating activities which turn
the dictionary into a wonderful and enjoyable resource for vocabulary learning.