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Humanising Language Teaching
Humanising Language Teaching
Humanising Language Teaching
CONTENTS


Editorial

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What is in this Issue

Major Articles

  1. Arguments against teaching English as an international
    Language in Brazil

    Roddy Kay, North East Brazil
  2. Country-specific materials- a Brazilian case study
    Secondary
    Virginia Garcia, Ricardo Sili, Carla Chaves, Cultura Inglesa, Brazil
  3. British ELT and the main stream
    Re-published from IATEFL 2005 Conference selections
    Rod Boliltho, College of St Mark and St John's, Plymouth, UK
  4. Foreign languages in Steiner-Waldorf education
    Laying the foundations: the first three years of English

    Primary
    Dr Christoph Jaffke, Hiroshima University, Japan
  5. Means of mass memorisation of multi-word expressions
    Part II the power of images

    Upper secondary adult
    Frank Boers, Brussels, Belgium, Seth Lindstromberg,Kent, UK

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Fifth International Conference on Humanism in Language Teaching
28-31 august 2006 in Portonovo (AN) ITALY

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Featuring: Mark Almond (Christchurch College), Stephanie Dimond-Beyir ( Bell), Keith Kelly (NILE), Donald Freeman (McGraw Hill), Susan Norman (SEAL), Izabella Hearn ( Pearson), Mario Rinvolucri (Helbling), Penelope Williams (Pilgrims)

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Jokes

Using the CALL classic, Storyboard, for joke-telling
Esther Lozano Estopanyan, EOI 1, Zaragoza, Spain


Short Articles

  1. Being down so long, seems like up to me
    Depression

    Lou Spaventa, Sta Barbara, Calilfornia, USA
  2. The "personal organiser", or portfolio, moves students into autonomy
    Secondary adult
    Carlos Leite, Flavio Franca, Brazil
  3. iTs…..the story of how a newsletter became a magazine
    Robert Campbell, editor, iTs magazine, BArcelona Catalunya, Spain
  4. PowerPoint- innocent proven guilty- the case for the defence
    Upper secondary adult
    Marijana Vucic-Pecnik, Natalija Andrakovic-Kostanjevac, Phil Dexter, Zagreb, Croatia
  5. Surviving a teaching presentation - the non-verbal way
    Tom Maguire, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
  6. Straight from the chalkface: test-driving the interactive white board
    Primary secondary adult
    Re-published from IATEFL SIG Newsletter
    Miranda Hamilton, Bell, Cambridge, UK

Ideas from the Corpora

Any difference between cemetery and graveyard?
Adults ( very old!)
Mario Rinvolucri, Pilgrims, UK

Lesson Outlines

  1. Learners become dictionaries
    Simon Marshall, Pilgrims, UK
  2. Dealing with stereotypes
  3. Feelings
  4. I used to, but not any more
    Activities 2-4 are offered by Chaz Pugliese, Paris, France

PILGRIMS TEACHER RESOURCE BOOKS
Go to HLT Sept 2004 Course Outline
More than half a hundred books.

Student Voices

Writings of a 13 year old school girl in a Chinese village
Exerpts from The Diary of Ma Yan, edited Pierre Haski.

Publications

Can your students eat in the classroom?
A review, by Agota Scharle,Budapest, Hungary, of Creative Resources, Bonnie Tsai, Judit Feher, International Alliance for Leraning, 2005

An Old Exercise

Running Dictation and three 2006 improvements on it
Primary, secondary, adult
Tandy Taylor, Richard Man, Pilgrims, HMS Raleigh, Plymouth , UK

Pilgrims Course Outline

Easter 2006 at Pilgrims, Canterbury, UK
Jim Wright, Head of Teacher training, Pilgrims, UK

IATEFL’s Teacher Development and Teacher Trainers’ and Educators’ Special Interest Groups (TTEd SIG) / Başkent University conference
25 – 28 May 2006
Venue: Ankara, Turkey.
Conference theme Extending development and training horizons.
Plenary speakers: Deniz Kurtoğlu Eken and Dave Allan

Proposals for talks and workshops by January 27th
Special 'early bird' registration rates until March 25th
Further information at http://dudeney.com/iatefl/ttedsig/ TTEdSIG@iatefl.org

Readers Letters

  1. If you love them…….
    Paul Davis, Cambridge UK and Sopot Poland
  2. How useful is teaching experience?
    Khoram Balaee, Tehran, Iran

Teacher Resource Books Review

Introduction to Creative Writing
Christine Frank, Mario Rinvolucri

Poems

Iki Masho ( Let's go)
Janet Braithwaite, UK

Acknowledgements
JJohn Morgan, UK



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