Editorial

Introducing this issue of HLT Magazine

Contributor's Guidelines

Major Articles

1. Making the Leap From Grammar to Lexis
   Hugh Dellar, UK
2. The Lexical Approach and Spoken Grammar: Developments in Language Analysis and Their Pedagogical Implications
   Hanna Kryszewska, Poland
3. Remembering Dave Willis: We are Lexically Indebted to Him
   Leo Selivan, Israel

Jokes

Letter to a CELTA Graduate
Paul Read, UK

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Short Articles

1. What is a Lexical Approach?
   George Woolard, UK
2. Putting Into Practice: Supplementing the Syllabus with the Study of Chunks
   Helen Osimo, Israel
3. Collocation Use in Writing Among Israeli Learners of English
   Tina Waldman, Israel
4. Targeting Vocabulary Acquisition for JHS – Introducing a Lexical Syllabus
   Chemda Benisty, Israel
5. Explaining and Practising the Grammar and Lexis of Academic Prose
   Simon Mumford, Turkey
6. Following the Patterns: Colligation and the Necessity of a Bottom-up Approach to Grammar
   Hugh Dellar, UK
7. Lexical Notebooks
   Dale Coulter, Germany
8. Who Needs New Words?
   Luiz Otávio Barros, Brazil
9. Teaching English Vocabulary
   Robin Usher, Oman
10. Chunks 'n' Pronunciation
    Jonathan Marks, Poland
11. Death by Idioms
    Chia Suan Chong, UK
12. Lexical Chunking – Too Good To Be True?
    Adam Borowski, Poland

ESL Teaching Jobs

Ideas from the Corpora

1. Teaching with Concordancing Tools
   Renee Wahl, Israel
2. Essential Lexical Tools
   Leo Selivan, Israel

Lesson Outlines

1. Slot-filler Relay Race
   Ken Lackman, Canada
2. Raising Awareness of Collocation in ELT
   Simon Mumford,Turkey
3. Practicing Speaking Skills: Traffic Court
   Hsiang-Ni Lee, Taiwan
4. The Company Words Keep
   Paul Davis, UK, and Hanna Kryszewska, Poland
5. The Irregular Verbs Song
   Gabriela Mihaescu, Romania

Student Voices

How Useful is Learning Chunks of Language? A Survey
Hanna Kryszewska, Poland

Publications

Short Book Reviews
Hanna Kryszewska, Poland

An Old Exercise

Making the Most of Wordsearches – 10 Ways
Anthony Sellick and James Bury, Japan

Pilgrims Course Outline

1. Pronunciation of Chunks: A Pilgrims Training Session by Marian Zamorski
   Peter Clements, UK
2. Feedback Through Chunks, Pilgrims Summer 2013
   Hanna Kryszewska, Poland
3. An Unforgettable Experience: Participation in an EU Project on Multiple Intelligence
   Bonnie Tsai, France

Readers Letters

Teacher Resource Books Review

‘Dignity – A Multidimensional View’
Francisco Cardoso Gomes de Matos, Brazil

Poems

1. Xmas, Happy Bloomin' Christmas!
   Alan Maley, UK
2. 21st Century Man
   Paul Bress, UK

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