Editorial

Introducing this issue of HLT Magazine

Contributor's Guidelines

Major Articles

1. Introducing English as a Second Language to Early Primary School Curriculum in Saudi Arabia
   Salwa Alkhuzay, Saudi Arabia
2. An Investigation into EFL Teachers’ Attitudes towards the Communicative Language Teaching in Vietnam
   Minh Ngoc Tran and Hau Trung Ho, Vietnam
3. Strategy Training for Effective Learning in Foreign Language Teaching
   Carol Griffiths, Turkey, and Ying Tang, PRC
4. L2 Learners' Perceptions of Teachers' Roles in EFL Settings
   Leila Sayah, Reza Pishghadam, Behzad Ghonsooly and Azar Hosseini Fatemi, Iran
5. The Linguistic Landscape in the English Language Classroom
   María Luisa Simón, Spain
6. A Survey on Problems in Studying ESP Faced by the IT Students at South-East Vocational College
   Dong Nai Province, Vietnam, Mai Tran Thi Thanh, Vietnam

Jokes

Testing Times: Special Xmas 2015 Edition
Geoff Tranter, Germany

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Short Articles

1. Revisiting the Role of the Foreign Language Teacher in an Input Poor Environment. Why Bother?
   Stacey Winch, Australia
2. Editing Shifts
   Shibu Simon, India
3. Going Beyond Traditional Assessment: Alternative Assessment and India ESL Classroom
   Amlanjyoti Sengupta, India

Ideas from the Corpora

More than words... On the Importance and Shape of Vocabulary Lists
Bruno Leys, Belgium

Lesson Outlines

1. EFL Classrooms Can Teach Higher Order Thinking Skills
   Percival Santos, PRC
2. Using Film Music and Film in TESOL
   James FitzGibbon, Qatar
3. Application of Word Link Memory Technique in the EFL/ESL Classrooms
   Michael Okamoto, Japan

Student Voices

How Useful is Learning Chunks of Language? A Survey (Part 2)
Hanna Kryszewska, Poland

Publications

1. I Was a Happy Man... Then One Day I Came Across Laughter Yoga
   Danny Singh, UK and Italy
2. Short Book Reviews
   Hanna Kryszewska, Poland
3. Ten Years of the Tune Into English Roadshow – The Book… Now available!
   Fergal Kavanagh, Italy

An Old Exercise

Hania’s Workshop and the Summer of 2005
Danny Singh, UK and Italy

Pilgrims Course Outline

Pilgrims News

Readers Letters

Teacher Resource Books Review

1. English for Diplomatic Purposes, edited by Patricia Friedrich
2. New Books from Routledge

Poems

1. Intersection
   Carol Griffiths, Turkey
2. More Selected Poems
   Phuong Le, Vietnam

C for Creativity

1. Bonnie Tsai Competition
2. Rap up Your Classroom
   Kara Aharon, Israel
3. Drawing/ Writing Competition 2015 Organised by the C-Group. And the Winner is…
4. Call for Articles on Creativity: ETAS

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