Tony Wright (b. 1948) is a British ELT writer and teacher educator, Emeritus Professor of Language Education at the University of St Mark & St John (Marjon) in Plymouth. He has taught and trained teachers across Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America, and continental Europe, and his work sits at the point where classroom practice, teacher learning, and the sociology of the lesson meet.
Wright writes about classrooms as social places before he writes about them as language places. That is the thread running through his career. His early contribution to the OUP Candlin–Widdowson series put Teacher Roles on the ELT map, making the question of who does what and on whose authority a legitimate object of study. His later work on Reflective Practice and teacher training continued the same argument, that classrooms deserve to be understood before they are managed.