Editorial

Introducing this issue of HLT Magazine

Contributor's Guidelines

Major Articles

1. Do Consciousness Raising Activities Improve Learning?
   Nick Morley, Vietnam
2. Thinking Outside the Teacher’s Box
   Steve Darn, Turkey
3. Literature Review on the Use of First Language During Second Language Writing
   Entisar Elsherif, Libya
4. Adolescents’ Beliefs About Group Activities and Peer Collaboration while Learning EFL Through Music in Brazil: A Sociocultural Approach
   Fernando Silvério de LIMA, Brazil

Jokes

Why We Love Children
found by Teresa Ting, Italy

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Short Articles

1. Public Speaking
   Edwin Salter, UK
2. Language Patterns and Embedded Suggestions for Motivating Learners
   Brian Cullen and Sarah Mulvey, Japan
3. Communicative English Language Teaching in Korea
   Seong Man Park, Canada
4. Preparing Pre-service Teachers in The Use of Strategies as Applied to Students With Disabilities learning a foreign language
   Lorraine Cleeton and Lois Grollitsch, USA
5. Meditating on the Issue of Language Acquisition Versus Language Learning
   Consuela Popa, Romania
6. Using Music in Second Language Instruction
   Mark Mallinder and Hsiang-Ni Lee, Taiwan
7. The Virtual Classroom Experience
   Danny Singh, UK and Italy
8. The Role of Ambiguity Tolerance in EFL Learning
   Saeedeh Karbalaee Kamran, Iran
9. Get the Eastern Trainees on the Move!
   Ream Odetallah, UAE
10. Using Stand-Up Comedy in The Language Classroom
    Gary Collins, Switzerland
11. The private ELT sector in Kazakhstan
    Thomas Ewens, Kazakhstan

ESL Teaching Jobs

Ideas from the Corpora

Great Bits of Creative Instruction in a Communicative Classroom
edited by Claudia Bustos

Lesson Outlines

1. The Magic 4: One for Writing Biographies, One for ‘Used to’, One for Tardiness, and One for Revision
   Sezgi Yalin, North Cyprus
2. Cats and Dogs: Creatures of Habit and Why Dogs Can’t Talk
   Michael Berman, UK
3. The Asrai
   Michael Berman, UK
4. Grammatical Mnemonics
   Simon Mumford, Turkey
5. Developing Intercultural Communication and Teaching Culture by the Use of VoiceThread in Primary School
   Stanislava Jaklic, Slovenia

Student Voices

Student Voices: The Difficulty of finding a Conclusion
Beate Walter with Johanna Keese, Germany

Publications

1. Short Book Reviews
   Hanna Kryszewska, Poland
2. From Rags to Riches
   Neil Mcbeath, Oman
3. Manifesto for Creative Teaching
   Chaz Pugliese, France

An Old Exercise

Drilling Students Seriously
Caroline de Schaetzen, Belgium

Pilgrims Course Outline

1. News from Pilgrims
2. There is a Rapture in this Bustling Centre
   Neli Kukhaleishvili , Georgia
3. From the Other Side of Hilltop
   Peter Clements, UK

Readers Letters

Teacher Resource Books Review

The ELT Daily Journal - Book Preview
Hall Houston, Taiwan

Poems

Three Poems
Ashok Chakravarthy, India

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