Describing Learners- Jeremy Harmer

Describing Learners

There are many reasons for students or for a person to learn English. Some students needs English for a specific purpose and is our responsibly to easily provide the correct learning environment and detect all learners differences.

Harmer has written about the different age groups, about importance in every stage and what we should be careful with, also he has written about learner differences, learner styles and language levels which also are one of the most important basics working with our students. The importance on creating a desire to learn by motivating our students and provoke them curiosity to stay interested in learning, the real motivation come from within each individual, from the students themselves.

I agree with Jeremy, because our students' age is one of the important things which we should find out before we start to work in a class. Because “people of different ages have different needs, competences, and cognitive skills" which teacher should remember. Children are not as experienced as adults are so teacher cannot use the same level of language and methods to all groups. I can clearly relate all this with my teaching practicum experience in which the mentor teacher used the same strategies and learning styles for all levels. We as future teachers have to understand that the purposes students have for learning will have an effect as a result influenced of what they are taught. Our main goal as teacher is to provide the correct motivation and knowledge to educate our pupils with the correct tools they deserve.