Jeremy Harmer
Jeremy Harmer is a British ELT writer, trainer, and speaker whose career has been unusually visible across teacher training, methodology publishing, and coursebook writing. He trained and first taught through International House, worked in Mexico and the UK, completed an MA in applied linguistics at Reading, and then became one of the field's best-known authors.
Harmer has the rare distinction of being both widely read and widely used. Many teachers meet him before they meet most SLA researchers. That does not make him a theorist in the style of Long or Ellis. It makes him something just as consequential in practice: a shaper of professional common sense. His ESA framework and his writing on Lesson Aims belong to that working-teacher vocabulary rather than to the research literature they quietly draw on.
Career
- Began his career through International House and later worked in Mexico and the UK
- Earned an MA in applied linguistics from the University of Reading
- Built an international profile as a speaker, trainer, and methodology author
- Worked across methodology, coursebooks, and teacher development
Published Work
- The Practice of English Language Teaching
- How to Teach English
- How to Teach Writing
- Essential Teacher Knowledge