Editorial

Introducing this issue of HLT Magazine

Contributor's Guidelines

Major Articles

1. China EFL: Programming Human Robots
   Niu Qiang and Martin Wolff, China
2. Authenticity of Communication in the Language Classroom
   Adriana Pčolinská, Slovakia
3. The European Credit Transfer System: Enhancing Creativity in Teachers and Students
   María Luisa Pérez Cañado, Spain

Jokes

A Blonde Joke
submitted my Mario Rinvolucri

Short Articles

1. When an EFL Teacher Takes the TOEFL
   Mandana Arfa Kaboodvand, Iran
2. Student Teachers
   Duygu Serdaroglu, Turkey
3. Critical Thinking
   Simon Says, for Burma, Hugh Cory
4. Remembering Hugh Cory
   joint article written by Hugh’s friends
5. Bewitched by 25 Students
   Agnese Bartoli, Italy
6. Know Thy Student!
   Cesar Elizi, Brazil
7. Learner and Teacher as Fellow Travellers: A Story Tribute to Jack Whitehead
   Jane Spiro, UK
8. Dealing with False Cognates between Spanish and English in Teaching Finance in an EFL Context
   Pablo Moreno Alemay, Colombia
9. The Mick Jagger of the English Verb
   Stephen Murrell, Italy
10. The Heart of the Matter: Beginner's Mind
    Lou Spaventa, US
11. Off the Beaten Path: Edward de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats
    Hall Houston, Taiwan

ESL Teaching Jobs

Ideas from the Corpora

Spoken Grammar: Go with the flow
Roger O' Keeffe, Spain

Lesson Outlines

1. Bringing External Situations into the ELT Classrooms Through Dialogues
   İsmail Çakır, Turkey
2. The Stagger Lee Project
   Simon Andrewes, Spain
3. Humanising Decontextualised Grammar
   Daniel Martín del Otero, Spain
4. EMO-TIONAL Verb Cards - Ideas for Teaching Vocabulary
   Daniela Tomatis, Italy

Student Voices

1. Who Makes a Better Teacher – Native or Non-native?
   Kamila Kaczmarczyk, Poland
2. How Do They Teach in Sweden? – A Report from a Swedish Pre-school
   Anna Ćwidak, Poland

Publications

1. Online Cert ICT & Cert IBET
   Nicky Hockly, UK
2. Teaching Writing Skills in EFL: Theory, Research and Pedagogy
   reviewed by Neil McBeath, Oman

An Old Exercise

1. ‘The Magic Pen’ based on ‘An Old Exercise’ in HLT Mag September 2006 ‘Speed Writing’ (originally from an idea by Katie Plumb)
   Peter Clements, UK

Pilgrims Course Outline

1. The Creative Teacher
   Bonnie Tsai, France

Readers Letters

Teacher Resource Books Review

1. Movement in EFL
   Peta Mason Gray, UK
2. Alex Writes Books
   Andrew Wright and Alexandra Wright, Hungary

Poems

Family Images: Poems from an Oxford summer, 2008

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