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Humanising Language Teaching
Humanising Language Teaching
Humanising Language Teaching
CONTENTS


Editorial

English as bindweed spreading across Europe
What's in this November Issue?

Major Articles

  1. "Enjoy loneliness"- Understanding voices of "the" Chinese learner
    Dr Qing Gu, Nottingham University, UK
  2. Some people dislike humanistic teaching or the real world of the classroom.
    John Morgan, Mario Rinvolucri, Pilgrims,UK
  3. Text from the learners
    Secondary adult
    Mario Rinvolucri, Pilgrims, UK
  4. Learning material from video clips of student presentations
    Adult
    Y.L.Teresa Ting Annamaria Mandoliti
    University of Calabria, Rende, Italy
  5. Explaining grammar through metaphor: Part 2
    Secondary adult
    Simon Mumford, Izmir Univesity of Economics, Turkey
  6. The challenging world of very young children (2-7)
    Luciana Machado de Franceschi,
    Teddy Bear School, Florianopolis, Brasil

Jokes

A meeting in a supermarket
(from Croatia)

Yorkshire Joke

The three old codgers
(from UK)

Tricking God
(from Romania )

Nursery School Story
(from Belgium)


Short Articles

  1. Some central principles of humanistic education
    Simon Marshall, Director of Studies, Pilgrims Teacher
    Training Division, UK
  2. The depressed Language Teacher
    Terri Ozaki Edwards, Mario Rinvolucri, UK
  3. The heart of the matter:
    Teacher profile 2; Santiago Jacksson,

    Lou Spaventa, Santa Barbara, USA
  4. In defence of student autonomy
    Andrew Arlidge, China , New Zealand>
  5. The post modern Italian family or the reality changes but the word stays the same
    Flavia Laviosa, Wellesley College, USA
  6. The good, the bad and the Powerpoint
    Richard Cooper, London, UK
  7. From school failure to life-success in learning a second language.
    Interview with a UK design technology teacher
  8. How students correct themselves
    Mario Rinvolucri, Pilgrims, UK
  9. Being in full control of my learning
    An adventure in Australian Sign Language
    Jane Arnold, University of Seville, Spain
  10. Using Art to evaluate languagesecondary adult
    Laura Laurentiu
    Timisoara, Romania
    'Nikolaus Lenau' Highschool
  11. Translation and Humanistic Language Teaching
    James W. Porcaro, Toyama University of International Studies, Japan
APIGA Association of English Language Teachers of Galicia, Spain

22nd Annual Conference "Moving Shaking"
10 -12 March, 2006 Balneario Guitiriz, Lugo

Combining spa pampering with ELT workshops, plenary talks and more at affordable prices.
Featuring Simon Marshall (Pilgrims), Robin Walker (OUP) and others.

Find out more at www.apiga.org

Ideas from the Corpora

Using Corpora to discover figurative extensions of word meaning in the language classroom
Jeanette Littlemore, Birmingham University, UK

Lesson Outlines

  1. Empty chairs
    Secondary adult
    John Morgan
  2. The borders of Europe
    Geographical location or Cultural artifice?

    Upper secondary adult
    Simon Marshall
  3. Teaching Proverbs from a literary text
    Secondary adult
  4. Enjoying dreadful translations
    Upper secondary adult
  5. Magic Numbers
    Primary and all ages
    Henk van Oort
  6. Stand up and sit down
    Primary
    Henk van Oort
  7. The lazy people of Chilhurst - a drama reading
    Henk van Oort

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

Student Voices

Words
Riita Venola, Finland
Taken from Poetry as a Foreign Language, edited by Martin Bates, White Adder Press, 1999

Publications

Unlocking Self-expression through NLP
Judy Baker, Mario Rinvolucri, Delta Books, 2005
Upper secondary and adult
Reviewed by Sally Bosworth Gerome, France ( re-print from France Tesol Newsletter)

Multiple Intelligences in EFL
Exercises for secondary and adult students

Herbert Puchta, Mario Rinvolucri, Helbling Languages,
(Here you have the full introduction from the book).

Challenging children
Imaginative activities for English lessons in Primary Education

Henk van Oort, Netherlands - author review

An Old Exercise

A business management maze
+ information about other sources for mazes

Pilgrims Course Outline

Who might you work with on one of our teacher training courses?
Mario Rinvolucri, Pilgrims, UK

Readers Letters

We tend to see our students as "linguistic beings"
Natalia Shuvalova, Samara, Russia

Management as the art of demotivating
Soili Hulkko, Loimaa, Finland

Teacher Resource Books Review

Language through movement
Primary, secondary, adult
Penelope Williams et al.

Poems

Lessons in Humanity, 1973-98
Joan Michelson, taken from Poetry as a foreign language edited by Martin Bates



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