Editorial

Introducing this issue of HLT Magazine

Contributor's Guidelines

Major Articles

1. Creative Writing for Students and Teachers
   Alan Maley, UK
2. The Effects of Attentive, Counselling-style Listening on the Participation of Japanese Students in Conversation: An Action Research Project
   Clair Taylor, Japan
3. Am I an Ideal Teacher?
   Zainab Al Balushy, Oman
4. How NOT to Teach Reading: Beware the Call of Functionalism
   Feride Hekimgil, Turkey

Jokes

The Leaf
submitted by Michael Berman, UK

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Short Articles

1. Language Acquisition and Skills: On Reading
   Consuela Popa, Romania
2. Project Work as a Tool for Enhancing the Transfer of ESP Knowledge into Practice
   Veronika Piccinini, Slovenia
3. Learning with Diversity
   Alexandra Sobral e Costa, Portugal
4. A Tool for the Blind to Learn English
   Óscar Fernando Velasco Romero, Mexico
5. The Language Teacher as Listener
   Thomas Ewens, Kazakhstan
6. A Reply to Stefan Rathert's Article and a Discussion of Steiner School Foreign Language Teaching
   Peter Lutzker, Germany
7. Leveling the Playing Fields for One-To-One
   Rosie Norman, Germany
8. A Personal Experience
   Mandana Arfa Kaboodvand, Iran
9. English Teacher Education and Training via Technology Enhanced Teaching in Bangladesh
   Md Golam Jamil, Bangladesh
10. From Stale Custom to Infinite Variety
    Andrew Wright and Alan Maley, Hungary and UK

ESL Teaching Jobs

Ideas from the Corpora

Listening to the English
Kati Somogyi-Tóth, Hungary

Lesson Outlines

1. Going to London for 2012 Olympic Games
   Martina Toso, Italy
2. Using PechaKuchas in the Classroom
   Bethany Cagnol, France
3. Simultaneous Skills and Activities
   Simon Mumford, Turkey
4. A Potpourri of Activities
   Sezgi Yalin, North Cyprus
5. Moral Dilemmas: Using Stories and Anecdotes in the Business English Class
   Michael Berman, UK
6. Making the Boring Bits Interesting
   Michael Berman, UK

Student Voices

What Chinese Students Expect
found on-line by Mario Rinvolucri, UK

Publications

1. The Round: A New Publishing Idea
   Luke Meddings, UK
2. Review of “Glimpses of Oman: Ten Stories About a Beautiful Country and Its People”
   by Neil McBeath, Oman
3. “Thinking in the EFL Class”: an Auto Review by Tessa Woodward
   Tessa Woodward, UK
4. Short Book Reviews
   Hanna Kryszewska, Poland

An Old Exercise

WikiEng: Wikipedia for learners of English
Roy Boardman, Italy

Pilgrims Course Outline

1. Short Course Outline 2013-2014
2. How Bernardo Bertolucci Changed My Life
   Danny Singh, UK

Readers Letters

Teacher Resource Books Review

Remembering to Forget
Tim Hahn, Spain

Poems

1. The City Caught In The Lights
   Sarah Behar, Turkey
2. New Poems
   Annamaria Mandoliti, Italy

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