Dear HLT Readers,
Welcome to the new issue of HLT. The issue goes live as we are all getting ready for the Pilgrims summer. We hope to greet you in Canterbury in the summer, but if you cannot make it there are other ways. You can read more about them in Tailor-made Group Courses at Pilgrims, and Pilgrims Overseas Workshops by Mandy Briggs, Pilgrims Workshops Coordinator.
I would like to let you know about the three Pilgrims/OISE scholarships to be won for IATEFL 2012 in Glasgow. In this editorial you find the necessary information. Please think about your possible contribution and do apply.
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Pilgrims Humanising Language Teaching Scholarship
This scholarship is funded by Pilgrims to enable a practising teacher in any teaching situation to lead a workshop at the IATEFL annual conference for the first time, and to have the opportunity to be published in old.hltmag.co.uk and in IATEFL publications. It is not necessary to be an IATEFL member to apply.
The award consists of:
- a conference registration
- £580 towards accommodation and travel costs
- a year's membership to IATEFL
To qualify you must:
- be a practising teacher who has recently explored a person centred approach or approaches in English language teaching
- be a first time speaker at the IATEFL Conference
- agree to submit by September 2011 an article between 500 and 600 words on how you have incorporated a person-centred approach into your teaching
To be considered you should submit:
- a 400-500 word summary of how you have incorporated a person centred approach into your teaching so far
- a brief curriculum vitae (2 sides A4 maximum)
- a passport sized photo (for inclusion in the conference programme if you win)
- a speaker proposal
If you are a member of IATEFL please submit online
If you are not a member of IATEFL please complete the special speaker registration form downloadable from Scholarships page as you will not be able to submit on line without a valid membership number. If you are the winner of this scholarship, a year's membership is paid for by the scholarship as all presenters must be members of IATEFL.
The submission date is 22nd August 2011. You will be informed about the award in mid-October.
PLEASE APPLY USING OUR ONLINE APPLICATION FORM, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE YOUR CV AND PHOTO READY TO UPLOAD
Candidates apply here: www.iatefl.org/scholarships
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There is more good news regarding indexing HLT. Now HLT is indexed in Open Access Scholarly Journals in Education.
As for this issue of HLT, there are many practical ideas submitted by our regular contributors; from Andrew Wright Words: Orchestral or Solo Instruments?, from Michael Berman The Picture as a Story and How Tamerlane Found His Fortune and finally from Simon Mumford Practising the Grammar of Spoken English, Rethinking Reading Aloud, and Drilling can be fun!.
In this issue we offer articles for teachers of all age groups and levels. For primary we have three articles: Teaching Multilingual Children by Sharon de Hinojosa, The Heart of the Matter: The Good Test by Lou Spaventa, and Story from Canada: An Episode to a New Beginning with L.E.A.P by Ivy Kwan with Jim Parsons. There are also some reviews of books for primary: ‘kidz-fiz-biz’ Physical Business for Kids - Learning Through Drama, Dance and Song by Marlene Rattigan, reviewed by Martin Blaszk, “Practise and Pass. Cambridge Young Learners Test. Movers” and “World Wonders 1” in Short Book Reviews by Hanna Kryszewska.
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OISE Young Learners Scholarship
This scholarship is funded by OISE to enable a practising teacher of young learners to lead a workshop at the IATEFL annual conference for the first time. It is not necessary to be an IATEFL member to apply.
The award consists of:
- a conference registration
- £580 towards accommodation and travel costs
- a year's membership to IATEFL
To qualify you must:
- be a practising teacher of young learners (18 years old or younger)
- be a first time speaker at the IATEFL Conference
To be considered you should apply online including:
- a summary, between 400 and 500 words, of how you have incorporated a high level of challenge for your students in your teaching and how you have helped your students go beyond their expectations of themselves.
- a brief curriculum vitae (2 sides A4 maximum)
- a passport sized photo (for inclusion in the conference programme if you win)
- a speaker proposal
If you are a member of IATEFL please submit online
If you are not a member of IATEFL please complete the special speaker registration form downloadable from Scholarships page as you will not be able to submit on line without a valid membership number. If you are the winner of this scholarship, a year's membership is paid for by the scholarship as all presenters must be members of IATEFL.
The submission date is 22nd August 2011. You will be informed about the award in mid-October.
PLEASE APPLY USING OUR ONLINE APPLICATION FORM, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE YOUR CV AND PHOTO READY TO UPLOAD
Candidates apply here: www.iatefl.org/scholarships/
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The Luxembourg series continues with two more artilces on teaching the secondary: Pattern Poetry Project by Elizabeth Dostert and Same But Different: Catering for Multiple Intelligences in a Mixed-ability Classroom by Jennifer Breithoff.
Five articles in this issue take a closer look at our methodology and revisit some of the widely held beliefs: A Fresh Look: “Task-based Extended Reading” by Burçin Yıldız, Turkey, My Lived Experience with the Communicative Approach to Language Teaching in China by Wei Liu, Current Cultural and Linguistic Crisis in the Post-Communicative Era in EFL by Consuela Popa and The Lord Said “Let There Be English Grammar” And There Was Great Rejoicing by Feride Hekimgil.
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Pilgrims Teacher Trainer Journal Scholarship
This scholarship is funded by Pilgrims to enable a practising teacher or teacher trainer to lead a workshop at the IATEFL annual conference and to have the opportunity to be published in the Teacher Trainer Journal and in IATEFL publications. It is not necessary to be an IATEFL member to apply.
The award consists of:
- a conference registration
- £580 towards accommodation and travel costs
- a year's membership to IATEFL
To qualify you must:
- be a practising teacher or trainer who can deliver a highly effective and inspirational training session
- agree to submit by September 2011 an article of between 500 and 600 words reflecting on your training session
To be consider you should apply online including:
- a 400-500 word summary of how you have planned your training workshop so far
- a brief curriculum vitae (2 sides A4 maximum)
- a passport sized photo (for inclusion in the conference programme if you win)
- a speaker proposal
If you are a member of IATEFL please submit online
If you are not a member of IATEFL please complete the special speaker registration form downloadable from Scholarships page as you will not be able to submit on line without a valid membership number. If you are the winner of this scholarship, a year's membership is paid for by the scholarship as all presenters must be members of IATEFL.
The submission date is 22nd August 2011. You will be informed about the award in mid-October.
PLEASE APPLY USING OUR ONLINE APPLICATION FORM, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE YOUR CV AND PHOTO READY TO UPLOAD
Candidates apply here: www.iatefl.org/scholarships/
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I believe the following three pairs of contrasting articles should be read together. The first on feedback and student satisfaction: Student/Consumer Satisfaction Survey: Holistic English vs. Traditional Oral English by Martin Wolff, and The Relationship Between Teacher’s Feedback and Students’ Motivation, by Marlena Grombczewska. The second pair that goes together well is on classroom management and class size: Some Practical Techniques on Managing Large English Language Classes by Yaser Khajavi and Reza Abbasian and Teaching 1-on-1 Classes by Sharon de Hinojosa. Finally the third pairs is on the funny and not so funny side of language teaching: English “Conversion”: The Funny Side of Spelling in Delhi, India by Arun Ganapathy and English in China - The Unfunny Joke by Martin Wolff.
Finally, a question and invitation. Many of the plenaries at IATEFL Brighton focused on e-learning and IT aided teaching. There are so many faces of blended and e-learning, so many interpretations, opinions and mixed feelings. I would like to publish a series on articles on the subject. Please add your voice to the debate and submit an article.
I hope you will enjoy this issue
Hania Kryszewska
HLT editor
hania.kryszewska@pilgrims.co.uk
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CONFERENCE THEME
In 2011 the Teacher Trainer Journal will be 25 years old! We want to celebrate that quarter of a century by bringing together readers, subscribers and contributors to the Teacher Trainer journal, together with new and experienced teach trainers, and those soon to enter the field, so we can share perspectives and practical ideas on teacher education.
On the agenda…..
- Plenary session on major issues in pre and in-service teacher training
- Participant presentations and practical workshops with the chance of publication as a follow up
- ‘Writer’s Workshop’ – Tips on publishing articles on work as a trainer
- ‘People who Train People’ – A live interview with someone from a parallel field
Proposals Accepted for:
- ‘An article comes alive!’ – Past contributors to the journal will choose one of their own articles, talk about why they wrote it and invite comments from participants
- ‘Case Study Hour’ – Participants present a case study based on a work issue and offer it up for analysis and comment by colleagues in small groups
The Venue
The Teacher Trainer 25th Anniversary Conference will be held at the University of Kent, on the hilltop overlooking the beautiful city of Canterbury in the county of Kent – known as the Garden of England. Accommodation can be booked on the campus which has easy transport links into Canterbury and London airports.
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And the winner might be?
Wouldn’t it be great to be able to say to students, “Read this graded reader. The story makes you want to read to the end to find out what happens!” The judges for the 2011 Extensive Reading Foundation Learner Literature Awards have selected the finalists from the 72 books nominated this year by 14 different publishers. The judges have found some books that learners would love to read. Here are comments that judges made about some of the books:
An excellent storyline with very good development of characters, this story is pitched at the right level. It will appeal to the major target group of readership, young adults. The issues in this book will have positive, lasting effects on readers. This book is hard to put down as it takes you on unexpected paths.
A clever story of a young girl who makes a time capsule for a school project. But something very unusual happens ….
This was one of the more interesting non-fiction readers we have come across for a long time. It will be of interest to most young adult readers.
Which books are they talking about? They could be any of the finalists in the five categories: young learners, and adolescents and adults at beginner, elementary, intermediate, and upper Intermediate and advanced levels. The nominees for each category are…
Young learners - Aladdin (Macmillan English Explorers), Animals In Art (Oxford Read and Discover), The Owl’s Song (Black Cat).
Adolescents and adults: Beginners – The Game (ILTS/ Hueber Verlag), Just So Stories (Black Cat), Under the Bridge (Pearson Longman Penguin Readers).
Adolescents and adults: Elementary – The Black Night (ILTS/Hueber Verlag), A Little Trouble in Dublin (Cambridge University Press), The Time Capsule (Helbling Readers).
Adolescents and adults: Intermediate - The Everest Story (Oxford University Press), Leaving No Footprint (Oxford University Press), Not Above the Law (Cambridge University Press).
Adolescents and adults: Upper Intermediate and advanced - Dragons' Eggs (Cambridge University Press), A Lion Called Christian (Scholastic), Two Worlds (Cambridge University Press).
Now we need to know what teachers and learners think of these books to help pick overall winners for each category. Online voting opens in late April at www.erfoundation.org/erf/ and closes in July. The winners will be announced in August.
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