Editorial

Introducing this issue of HLT Magazine

Contributor's Guidelines

Major Articles

1. EFL Learners’ Creativity and Critical Thinking: Are They Associated?
   Mansoor Fahim and Alireza Zaker, Iran
2. Emotional Intelligence from a Language Teaching Perspective: Some Suggestions for Practice
   Amir Hossein Ghebali and Hadi Farjami, Iran
3. Mediated Functioning and Processing Time as a Measure of L2 Learners’ ZPD performance
   Karim Shabani and Iman Bakhoda, Iran
4. Not Cristal Clear Voices: Iranian TEFL Context and Non-Native Teachers
   Seyyed Abbas Mousavi, Iran
5. Application of Self-regulation in Reading Comprehension
   Mahshad Tasnimi and Parviz Maftoon, Iran
6. Which one Comes First in Your Classes? Form or Meaning!
   Amin Pouresmaiel and Javad Gholami, Iran
7. Contrastive Phonological Analysis of English and Persian: A Case Study of an Iranian EFL Learner
   Zahra Alimorad, Iran

Jokes

A Bit of Spice
submitted by Seyyedeh Setareh Mousavi, Iran

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Short Articles

1. How to Implement ICT in an EFL Context: From Theory to Practice
   Monir Ganjalikhani Hakemi, Iran
2. Authentic Video in the EFL Classroom: A Practical Review
   Karim Kiani, Iran
3. Dynamic Assessment as a Helping Hand for English Teachers: Computerized Assessment of transition Words or Phrases
   Mahdi Nasiri, Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi and Mansoor Tavakkoli, Iran
4. How the Knowledge Base in Language Assessment is Measured: A Reverse Engineering Approach
   Kioumars Razaipour and Tahereh Firoozi, Iran
5. Problematizing Latent Colonialism
   Mohammad Tamimy, Iran
6. Collocations: A Linguistic view and Didactic Facet
   Roohollah Shojaee and Mohammad Bavali, Iran
7. Activities to Prevent Loss of Proficiency in Non-native TEFL Teachers
   Reza Abbasian, Iran
8. The Post Method Era: Opportunities and Challenges
   Naser Rashidi and Yaser Khajavi, Iran

Ideas from the Corpora

‘Chunks’ and Generative Grammar
Manjula Duraiswamy, India

Lesson Outlines

1. Creative Innovative Conversations: Why and How?
   Mehri Golfeshan, Iran
2. A Snapshot of Teaching English
   Sara Salehi Karoonian, Iran
3. Teaching Grammar by Using Songs in EFL Context
   Mehdi Shahvali, Iran

Student Voices

The Quest of Learning English
Seyed Behrouz Behzadi, Iran

Publications

1. Evaluation of QUICK Software: the Pros and Cons
   Zahra Fakher Ajabshir, Iran
2. Short Book Reviews
   Hanna Kryszewska, Poland
3. The Extensive Reading Foundation: Language Learner Literary Award
4. Black Cat Readers
5. English Vocabulary in Use, Cambridge University Press

An Old Exercise

Dictation Game in Language Classroom
Ali Shahriari, Iran

Pilgrims Course Outline

Pilgrims News

Readers Letters

Teacher Resource Books Review

Something to Say: Ready-to-Use Speaking Activities
, authors’ review by Tessa Woodward and Seth Lindstromberg, UK

Poems

Poems from Iran

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