Editorial

Introducing this issue of HLT Magazine

Contributor's Guidelines

Major Articles

The Impact of Teachers’ Communication Skills on Teaching: Reflections of Pre-service Teachers on their Communication Strengths and Weaknesses
Sng Bee Bee, China

Jokes

A Little Humour: Three Snippets With Interesting Explanations
Edwin Salter, UK

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Short Articles

1. Reading Aloud: Breaking the Taboo
   Robert Buckmaster, Latvia
2. Social Turn, Identity and ‘New’ Literacy Practices
   Peter Clements, UK
3. Motivation: An Elusive Quality
   Feride Hekimgil, Turkey
4. How One Tutoring Experienced Changed My Teaching
   Sara Whitestone, USA
5. The Tools of Collaborative Learning
   Nico Wiersema, Mexico
6. One Town Before and After
   Lis da Rocha, Libya
7. Going Back Home
   Sharon de Hinojosa, Korea
8. The Steiner’s Debate
   Tony Cañadas, Spain
9. On Two Articles Published in December 2011 Issue of HLT
   Anca-Mariana Pegulescu, Romania

ESL Teaching Jobs

Ideas from the Corpora

The Cambridge Grammar of English in the ELT Classroom - Teaching Selected Features of Spoken English
edited by Veronika Piccinini, Slovenia, Sylvia Velikova,Bulgaria, and Andrea Rebrová, Slovakia

Lesson Outlines

1. Twelve Classroom Ideas
   Michael Berman, UK
2. PFlex Your Creative Muscles!
   Simon Mumford, Turkey
3. A Business Lunch: An Intercultural Activity
   Anila R. Scott-Monkhouse, Italy and Enrica Rigamonti, Austria
4. One Text: Eight Ways to Exploit It
   Susan Purcell, UK
5. The Enchanted Lake
   Michael Berman, UK
6. St. Valentine’s
   Alexandra Costa, Portugal

Student Voices

Special Educational Needs: A Case Study
Karolina Woźniak, Poland

Publications

1. Short Book Reviews
   Hanna Kryszewska, Poland
2. Language Domesticated (2): Does Testing Cause Learning…?
   Grzegorz Śpiewak, Poland
3. The Shapes of Things by Michael Swan
   reviewed by the author, Michael Swan, UK

An Old Exercise

Creative Ways With Common Similes in English
Natasha Jovanovich, Serbia

Pilgrims Course Outline

1. Easter, Summer and Autumn Courses
2. The Multiple Intelligences Entry Point Approach: Engaging Language Learners into Any Topic
   Josh Lange, UK

Readers Letters

Teacher Resource Books Review

Metodica predării limbii engleze – Strategies of Teaching and Testing English as a Foreign Language: Auto-review of a New Edition by the Author
Adriana Vizental, Romania

Poems

1. Two Poems from an Oxford Summer, 2008
2. 26 Letters
   Ibn Tyne, Saudi Arabia
3. A Teacher’s Song
   Fiona James, UK

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