Editorial

Introducing this issue of HLT Magazine

Contributor's Guidelines

Major Articles

1. Current Trends in Teacher Performance Evaluation in Portugal
   Carlos Ceia, Portugal
2. Pronunciation and Motivation in FLT: An Empirical Classroom Study Among Flemish Learners of German
   Philipp Bekaert, Belgium
3. China EFL: Mute English. CET – the Bane of EFL Acquisition in China
   Niu Qiang, PhD, and Martin Wolff, J.D., China

Jokes

Two Jokes
submitted by Cecile Marit, Belgium

Short Articles

1. The Arts and Crafts of Teaching Pronunciation: The What and How?
   Hande Isil Mengu, Turkey
2. Speech Errors and Joke Construction in the Routine Language Teaching
   Giampaolo Poletto, Hungary
3. How to Present Vocabulary in a Language Classroom in a Communicative Way
   Adriana Pčolinská, Slovakia
4. Yoga and Learning English: Being Here Now
   Ana Maria Ferreira Barcelos, Brazil
5. Creative Language Learning
   Roy Boardman, Italy
6. On Feedback
   Lou Spaventa, US
7. Made in China
   Simon Greenall, UK
8. An Indonesian Assignment
   Graham Paterson, Australia
9. The Duty of a Best Friend
   Ken Jackson, UK
10. A Campfire Story
    Henk van Oort, the Netherlands
11. You Know You Have Been in China For Too Long When … - Substitute Teaching and the Western Culture
    Martin Wolff, China

ESL Teaching Jobs

Ideas from the Corpora

Revisiting 'My Good-bye to the Lexical Approach'
Seth Lindstromberg, UK

Lesson Outlines

1. Talking Together: Working Towards Better Group Work
   Jessica Watson, UK
2. Activities for April Fool’s Day
   Peter Clements, UK
3. Swimming Dictation
   Catherine Vaucher, Switzerland
4. Drink, Drugs and Knives: How They Help me Teach English
   Liz Plampton, UK
5. Proverbs and Sayings in the Lesson
   Eva Homolová, Slovakia
6. The ESOL Core Curriculum: De-humanising Language Teaching?: Painting by Numbers
   Nick Bilbrough, UK

Student Voices

Two Five Year Old Voices
Sumbitted by Mario Rinvolucri, UK

Publications

1. Short Book Reviews
   Hanna Kryszewska, Poland
2. Exploring TESOL Practices in the Arabian Gulf
   reviewed by Neil McBeath, Oman
3. English Pronunciation in Use Elementary, auto-review by the author
   Jonathan Marks, Poland

An Old Exercise

Successful ABC Exerecise
Annette Kurz, Germany

Pilgrims Course Outline

1. 2010 April courses
2. Back Home: Using NLP in the Classroom
   Bonnie Tsai, France
3. Impressions on Mario’s Video Conference

Readers Letters

Teacher Resource Books Review

Of the Students, By the Students and For the Students: Chapter 5 - First Day Student Culture Shock
Martin Wolff, China

Poems

DOT
Paul Bress, UK

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