Dear HLT Readers,
Welcome to the June issue of HLT. Soon the Pilgrims summer will start and we hope to be able to welcome you on our summer courses at the University of Kent, in Canterbury, or at the Humanising Language Teaching Conference in Portonovo, Italy. For more information on the conference go to Pilgrims News. Both the places have a lot of charm and many attractions. So when you decide to look up 20 Local Newspaper Stories That Could Only Happen In Kent in the Jokes section, take it with a pinch of salt. Famous English humour.
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We are glad to announce the Pilgrims ELT Conference 2015@Portonovo, Ancona - Italy, a marvellous dream spot (www.hotelfortino.it) from August 26th – August 29th 2015
Humanistic Language Teaching Conference
Past, Present and Future
Participants will attend plenary sessions by keynote speakers and commit themselves to two 6-hour workshops over two days (Thursday and Friday). The aim of the conference is to continue spreading knowledge of humanistic thinking and its practical applications. The participants are usually teachers and trainers from primary, middle and secondary schools, teacher associations and universities.
Come and join the Conference for four unforgettable days in the superb setting of Portonovo where you can share ideas and get many more from amazing speakers who have been inspiring your teaching for years.
Why come to Pilgrims @Portonovo 2015? Because you, passionate teacher, deserve it!!!
For more information go to www.pilgrims.co.uk/page/?title=Conference+2015&pid=228
and book soon because places are filling quickly!!!
Best wishes and see you in August 2015
Jim Wright - Head of Pilgrims, e-mail: jim.wright@pilgrims.co.uk
Valeria Gallerani - Director of the Conference, e-mail; valegallerani@gmail.com
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Before I introduce this issue of HLT I would like to reply to some e-mails I have received recently. There have been a number of inquiries regarding the readership of HLT. Many of you have asked me about the readership and statistics for HLT. So below you will find a couple of screen captures which I am sure will answer some of your questions. ( NB. When I took the screen capture it was mid May so the stats will have gone up by now.)
In this issue we say goodbye to Gwyneth Fox (Remembering Gwyneth Fox by Michael Rundell). It is sad that recently in every issue of HLT we said goodbye to colleagues and friends who mattered to us a lot, both professionally and personally: Robert O’Neill, Earl Stevick, Bonnie Tsai, Dave Willis. And as I am writing this editorial I hear about the untimely death of Adam Kilgarriff.
Educational Journal of Living Theories
Special issue December 2015 Creative teaching, creative learning: what does it mean and why is it important?
Edited by Jane Spiro Oxford Brookes University
A call for papers is opened to teachers/teacher educators in any sector who consider creative approaches to learning and teaching to be important. We are inviting you to share your responses to the questions: what does creativity mean to me? What do I do about it? Why is it important? How is it important for others? Your paper might include teaching activities, planning principles and decisions, student work and feedback, lesson notes, critical incidents and turning points, readings and experiences that influenced you, visual and digital material; journal entries, narrative accounts, or any other ways of explaining your approach. The special issue hopes to draw together educators from any subject discipline who aim for creativity in their classrooms, and believe it to be important.
We welcome submissions from educational practitioners who are undertaking to understand and explain their educational influences in their own learning, the learning of others, and in their own contexts (Whitehead, 1989). We are dedicated to publishing accounts in which practitioners show how they are living their values in their working lives. Many practitioners may not before have been able to, or have wanted to, or have felt the relevance of writing and representing their significant ideas and extensive personal knowledge. Thus, one of the chief reasons for the existence of this e-journal is to give to such people the space, freedom and encouragement to speak. So this is about you and your personal experience of creativity in your life. Although we prefer practitioners' accounts, we are open to different forms of expression from contributors who stand firmly in their lives for the life-affirming values that help others and make the world a better place for all people.
Papers can be any length up to 6000 words, and can include digital links as these will be published online.
You will be part of an open and constructive peer review process.
Shorter papers and accounts may be combined to reflect shared concerns and interests.
Deadline date for submission of proposals. March 30th 2015 Final submission of papers 1 September 2015.
Submissions should be sent to the EJOLTS website at www.ejolts.net/submission clearly indicating Creativity Special Issue and/or directly to the special issue editor Jane Spiro jspiro@brookes.ac.uk
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The April 2015 issue of HLT was devoted to creativity. In the editorial of that issue we shared with you our new idea to launch a new section in HLT devoted to creativity called C for Creativity, to which members of the C Group will contribute their articles. (Please note everybody can join the group http://thecreativitygroup.weebly.com/ ) Chaz Pugliese will be in charge of harvesting articles and his text C is for Creativity launches the new section. More details on how to join he group can be found in the article.
As for articles in this issue you will find a lot of practical ideas in Getting to Grips with Texts by Simon Mumford, A Cross-Cultural Experience in Tourism Studies by Giovanni Ruggieri and Ninfa Pagano, and even more ideas on teaching with ICT in Teaching Teens with Task-based TV Shows by Stephen Reilly, Google Giveth and Google Taketh, Developments in Google as a Corpus by Muralee Navaratnam, and Computer Assisted Language Learning by Georgina Hudson and Angela Honaman Elizalde.
Some articles address various issues regarding language teaching and everyday classroom practice such as feedback of written assignments, teaching pronunciation and intonation, playing games in a language class or developing learners’ empathy with regard to disability (The Joys of Marking IELTS Writing by Sally Lloyds and Ruth Carr, A Reason for Rhyming by Rosemary Westwell, The Importance of Intonation by Danny Singh, Student As a Player - Projecting Didactic Tools in Early Education and Academic Education by Małgorzata Banasiak, and Helping Students Increase Their Empathy and Awareness of Mobility Disability by Clementine Afthonidou.
Four articles present research results on selected aspects of classroom practice in ELT: The Process of Implementation of Bilingual Education Programs in Chosen Primary Schools in Europe by Barbara Muszyńska and M. Elena Gómez Parra, The Effects of Task Repetition on Language Teaching and Learning: A Review by Mansor Fahim, Sadegh Shariati and Zahra Masoumpanah, An Investigation of Effects of Role-play on Students’ Speaking Skill in an EFL Context by Tham My Duong, and Blogging in Second Language Writing: Synthesis of Research by Samah Elbelazi.
Teachers and teacher trainers who would like to reflect on classroom practice from the point of view of theories, models, trends or approaches will enjoy the following articles in this issue: The Transactional Analysis Motivation Model as a Framework of Reference for Teachers and Trainers by Paolo Torresan, First Language Acquisition: Revisiting the Social Interactionist Paradigm by Mansoor Fahim and Mohammad Amerian, Humanizing Language Curriculum Development by Mohammad Khatib, Sadegh Shariati, and Zahrah Masoumpanah, Methods Are Still Breathing by Ali Shahriari, and Magicians or Teachers by Robin Usher.
There is a lot of information on new books and publishing initiatives in the Publications and Book Preview sections (Short Book Reviews by Hanna Kryszewska, Teaching children how to learn. Plan! Do! Review! by Gail Ellis and Nayr Ibrahim and Heads Up -- both from DELTA Publishing) and in the Letters section. You can also read about Extensive Reading Foundation Awards Ceremony at IATEFL Manchester. You can even take part in the voting on the 2015 finalists (see below).
Enjoy the June issue of HLT
Hania Kryszewska
HLT Editor
e-mail: hania.kryszewska@pilgrims.co.uk
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