Editorial

Introducing this issue of HLT Magazine

Contributor's Guidelines

Major Articles

1. Invention Strategies: From the Classical Writing Process to CMC Process
   Lilian Mina, United States
2. Humanising Language Teaching: Reviewing Concepts for the Teaching of English to the Deaf
   Antonio Henrique Coutelo de Moraes and Wanilda Maria Alves Cavalcanti, Brasil
3. Consonance in English Proverbs and Collocations
   Seth Lindstromberg, UK
4. Autonomy in Language Education
   Mostafa Younesi, Iran

Jokes

Testing Times
Geoff Tranter, Germany

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Short Articles

1. Motivation: An Elusive Quality - A Critical Analysis of Classroom Presence
   Feride Hekimgil, Turkey
2. Attitudes Towards Storytelling in ELT
   Michael Berman, UK
3. Does Teaching Creative Thinking Skills Work in Practice?
   Nick Morley, Macao
4. Humanising Language Learning: Blending Learning in SLA
   D. Ravikumar and V. Anitha Devi, India
5. Integration of Content-Based Instruction into Elementary School EFL Instruction
   Grace Chin-Wen Chien, Taiwan
6. A Lot to Learn from Our Elderly (Year 1) - Getting a Deeper European Conscience
   Isidr Almendárez, Spain
7. Preparing Trainees to Teach Adults: Challenge for Teacher Training Programmes in Slovakia
   Eva Homolová, Slovakia
8. Empowering EFL Teachers with Interpretive Skills: Analysis of Student Teachers’ Self-Reports
   Grażyna Kiliańska-Przybyło, Poland

ESL Teaching Jobs

Ideas from the Corpora

Humanizing Learning Vocabulary through Thematic Clustering
Yaser Khajavi, Iran

Lesson Outlines

1. Integrating Nonverbal Communication into Language Classroom Activities
   Simon Mumford and Steve Darn, Turkey
2. Tense and Time
   Simon Mumford, Turkey
3. Whether to Stay Here or to Leave this Life
   Michael Berman, UK
4. How to Find a New Job
   Michael Berman, UK
5. Student-made Playing Cards for Oral Phrase Practice
   Eoin Jordan and Sarah Butler, UK
6. WebQuest on Smoking Ban: Would You Like to Kiss an Ashtary
   Natasha Jovanovich, Serbia

Student Voices

Chinese Whimpers
Stephen Reilly, France

Publications

1. Traditional Folk Songs:15 folk songs from Britain and Ireland – Auto-review
   David.A.Hill, Hungary
2. The Oxford English Grammar Course by Michael Swan and Catherine Walter - Author Review
   Michael Swan, UK
3. I.S.P. Nation.Teaching Vocabulary: Strategies and Techniques
   reviewed by Alan Maley, UK
4. Short Book Reviews
   Hanna Kryszewska, Poland

An Old Exercise

Teaching Grammar by Examples
Eman Elturki, US

Pilgrims Course Outline

1. Course Outline: Build Your PLN with Pilgrims
   Beyza Yılmaz and Işıl Boy, Turkey
2. Memory Lane for Pilgrims, Canterbury
   Guðmundur Helgi Helgason, Iceland

Readers Letters

Teacher Resource Books Review

Psychology for Language Learning: Insights from Research, Theory and Practice, edited by Sarah Mercer
Stephen Ryan and Marion Williams, UK

Poems

Poems
Amlanjyoti Sengupta, India

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