Dear HLT Readers,
Welcome to the December issue of HLT. I am happy that the magazine is back on line, and I apologize for the technical problems we struggled with for the first two weeks of November.
First of all some Pilgrims news. This is the time to apply for Erasmus+ Grants. Do come to Pilgrims - the article Pilgrims News: Erasmus+ Funding for Teachers in EU Countries tells you more about it. If you want to find out about the inspiring atmosphere at Pilgrims and meet some of the teachers who attended the Pilgrims 2017 courses read Pilgrims Summer 2017 by Charlotte Bastert, and 21st Century Thinking Skills with Archimboldo by Lucia Olosová and Juli Károlyi, Andrea Winter and Lilja Gudmundsdottir. Also let me remind you that 15th December 2017 is the deadline for submitting your applications for the Bonnie Tsai Scholarship for 2018.
During the year you may be involved in various projects, some of which are inspired by regional policies like this one focusing on developing and promoting adult education.
(You can read more at:
www.eaea.org/en/policy-advocacy/2017-the-year-of-adult-education-in-europe.html)
Perhaps you would be interested in joining the TAO Project – Teaching Adults Online. For more you can read below. We will be certainly updating you on how the project develops. Also you may want to share information about the projects you are engaged in and publish your materials in HLT. I will be happy to provide a platform for sharing your project ideas and outcomes.
Another series of articles I hope to initiate with this issue is called I Forgot How to School by Thomas Belvedere, new to HLT. Thomas is an Astronomy student at the University of Bologna who draws comics and writes stories in his free time. I am sure you will find his cartoons clever and inspiring. Who knows perhaps you will use them in your class… or HLT will be able to boast that we were the first to publish the work of an acclaimed cartoon artist.
As for the returniks I am so happy Mario Rinvolucri has kept his promise and is contributing to the Old Exercise section, so don’t miss Talking to Yourself in English. The texts and ideas he remembers or finds in his files are real gems, which don’t deserve to be forgotten.
HLT has also started new reciprocal cooperation with Preply. As you can see at https://preply.com/en/partners we are in good company. From now on you can follow the link to Preply https://preply.com/ from each editorial contents page.
As you are probably aware, HLT cooperates with publishers who are willing to share their publicity materials which I publish in Book Preview or Publications. They also make their books available to be reviewed (Short Book Reviews) or make their books available at a special price to HLT readers like Going Performative in Intercultural Education. International Contexts, Theoretical Perspectives and Models of Practice. Eds. John Crutchfield and Manfred Schewe. Multilingual Matters for the second time are offering a special discount for HLT readers so if you are interested click here.
As for the C Group news, you can read about a new book Creativity and English Language Teaching From Inspiration to Implementation by Alan Maley and Tamas Kiss, Palgrave and The Image in English Language Teaching, reviewed by Mario Rinvolucri; all C Group members.
Sadly in this issue we are saying goodbye to David A. Hill, a creative author, teacher, tutor, trainer, active member of the C Group, a poet and singer. In David A. Hill 1952-2017. In Memoriam some of his colleagues are remembering David; we will all miss him.
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LIF2018 – 5th International Language in Focus Conference
Click here for LIF2018 First Circular
Thessaloniki, Greece in May 3 - 5, 2018 will be organized by Cukurova University - Turkey, The University of Sheffield International Faculty, CITY College - Greece and the South-East European Research Centre (SEERC) in LIF2018 – Language in Focus Conference
As you know, annual International LIF Conferences have already become an academic platform for exchanging ideas, projects and scientific research between aspiring academics, teachers, university students and well-known researchers thanks to your invaluable contributions.
In harmony with this spirit of academic enthusiasm, we would like to invite academics, scholars, representatives of central and local educational authorities, non-governmental organizations, school teachers and practitioners representing an exciting diversity of countries, cultures, and religions to meet and exchange ideas and views in a forum encouraging respectful dialogue. LIF2018, to be held in Thessaloniki, Greece, will constitute a great opportunity to meet experts in various areas of ELT and language studies.
We are looking forward to seeing you among us at LIF2018 in Thessaloniki, Greece in May.
LIF2018 – Language in Focus Organization Committee
www.languageinfocus.org
lif2018@languageinfocus.org
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This issue of HLT is jam packed with ideas about among others on SEN (Language and Deafness: Teaching a Foreign Language to the Deaf from a Bakhtinian Perspective byAntonio Henrique Coutelo de Moraes and Wanilda Maria Alves Cavalcanti), teacher development (An English Teacher’s Inquiry into Own Instructional Practices, by Stefan Rathert) and TBL (Teaching Grammar in a Task-based Framework: What Cognitive Semantics Can Offer by N. P. Sudharshana).
There are a number of personal stories and confessions like: How Not to Tell a Story by Jamie Keddie, Archimedes and Pterodactyls by Raymond Devenney, Pragmatics, Blasphemy, and a Bloody Moose by Terry McLean, and From a German Coursebook to Studying Languages… by Karolina Haase.
And much more to read…
Enjoy the December issue of HLT.
Best
Hania Kryszewska
HLT Editor
E-mail: hania.kryszewska@pilgrims.co.uk
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