Dear HLT Readers,
Welcome to the February 2017 issue of HLT. If you are planning to come to Pilgrims this summer, I hope you have remembered about the Erasmus+ deadlines. We hope to greet you at Pilgrims this year. To find out more about the Pilgrims ethos and the Pilgrims experience read Pilgrims News: Relax, Ask and Relax… - Flashback to a Summer Teacher Training Course at Pilgrims by Csilla Jaray-Benn.
There is also a chance for us to meet at the IATEFL Glasgow Conference. We are happy to tell you that as in past years, Pilgrims is one of the sponsors of the conference. Please do look us up at the Pilgrims stand there, and come to the sessions featuring Pilgrims trainers.
If you need further convincing that attending conferences is a unique opportunity for growth, read Report on the Four Corners Tour and JALT Conference by Sarah Mercer, and Where Inspiration Was Born – Memories from Slovenia IATEFL 2016 by Danny Singh.
The C Group will be part of the LitSIG Pre-conference Event at the IATEFL Glasgow Conference. The C Group members will be also presenting at the main IATEFL Conference, and RELC Conference in Singapore, so you may meet them there. In the meantime to stay with touch with the movement, read Teacher Creativity as Combinatory Play by Daniel Xerri, a C Group member.
Registration is now open for the 52nd RELC International Conference, March 13-15, 2017 in Singapore. This event is seen by many as one of the best ELT conferences in Southeast Asia. This year’s conference aims to bring into focus the dimensions of language planning and policy alongside current perspectives and practice in curriculum design, materials development, language pedagogy and assessment.
Among the conference’s invited speakers are 4 C-Group Members: Le Van Canh, Allen Davenport, Alan Maley, and Brian Tomlinson. More information about the conference can be found here.
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In this issue you will find articles on teaching speaking: Encouraging Passive Learners of English to Communicate More Effectively in Class by Mary Jane Özkurkudis, and Communication versus Correctness in the EFL Classroom by Steve Mullen.
There are also articles on how to combine language teaching with music: The Use of Music in English Teaching in the Philippines by Kim F. Rockell and Merissa B. Ocampo, and Using Songs with Teenagers by Véronique Buffat, and how to combine language teaching and literature: A Literature-based Approach for Motivating Adult EFL Learners by Mark Mallinder and Hsiang-Ni Lee, and Wuthering Heights: Lesson Plan by A.Özkan Bicer and Carol Griffiths. The texts exemplify how CLIL can be implemented in ELT; another example is the article by Michele C. Guerrini An Active Approach to CLIL Natural Science: Exploiting ICT and Hands-on Activities.
All those of you interested in CLIL will be happy to find out about a new initiative (see below).
Readers interested in IT in education will surely be inspired by: Online Discussions as a Way to Support Verbal Skills: Perception and Outcomes by Heather M. Austin, and Learning Through Transmedia Storytelling in the Micro-context of Samara University, Russia by E. Agrikova.
There are three texts on teaching vocabulary: Exploring the English as a Foreign Language Vocabulary Instruction in Macedonia: Assessing the Practical Implications of the Vocabulary Teaching Strategies Used in Macedonian Schools by Tatjana Jovcheska, Learning English Idioms for Fun by Fuqin Pan, and Supporting Students’ Noticing of Academic Language Patterns through Corpus Data by Eman Elturki (in the Corpora Ideas section). Thank you to all of you who responded to my call for papers for this section. This time I would like to ask you to send in more students’ voices and practical lesson outlines, especially for young learners. To get inspired read: ELT Character Education in the 21st Century: The Power of Kindness, the Power of ELT by Margarita Kosior, An Exam Prep Cookbook by Lindsey Clark, Frog and Dragonfly by Jamie Keddie, The Tune Into English Roadshow November and December 2916 by Fergal Kavanagh, and Atyrau by Zaure Kulchikenova.
Those of you into teacher training will surely enjoy: Teachers With a First Language Other than English: A Reflection on Post-lesson Interviews by Gerhard Erasmus, and When Teachers Become Clients: Do They Practice What They Preach? by Renata Montaldi.
Don’t miss the articles on new publications and publishing initiatives: Short Book Reviews by Hanna Kryszewska, Keeping It All Together in ELT by Steve Mullen, Video Telling by Jamie Keddie, How to Teach: Reading for Pleasure by Kenny Pieper from Crown House Publishing, and ETpedia Materials Writing: 500 ideas for creating English Language materials.
For your entertainment there is some humour in Testing Times by Geoff Tranter, and some poems: 15 Poems by Phuong Le, and Phoenix New Life Poetry - the voice of Phoenix Poets No 62, Autumn and Winter 2016.
Enjoy the February 2017 issue of HLT. Remember I am always happy to hear from you, and the most interesting e-mails are published in the Readers’ Letters section (by permission of the author, of course)
Enjoy this issue of HLT
Hania Kryszewska
HLT Editor
e-mail: hania.kryszewska@pilgrims.co.uk
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