Editorial

The Bane of POWERPOINT presentations
What you will find in this issue of HLT

Major Articles

1. Trust your instincts: the virtues of spontaneity and personalisation
   Secondary adult
   Paul Seligson, UK and Brazil
   
2. The fate of minority languages
   The case of Ladins in North Italy
   Carmen Rubatscher, South Tyrol/Alto Adige, Italy
   
3. The L1 in the L2 Classroom
   Secondary adult
   Simon Gill, Czech Republic
   
4. A role-switching exercise on a teaching training course
   Mario Rinvolucri, Pilgrims, UK
   
5. 5. Towards a People's English:
   Back to BASIC in EIL
   Bill Templer, Thailand
   

Jokes

Church Blunders

Short Articles

1. Are language students naïve…. or what?
   On the overloaded student's mind
   Alina Kolanczyk, Warsaw School of Social Pychology at Sopot, Poland with Hanna Kryszewska, University of Gdansk, Poland
   
2. The Heart of the Matter 16
   Teacher Interview 1: Nora Foster
   Lou Spaventa, Sta Barbara, California, USA
   
3. Culture shock
   or how I felt on my gap-year in Brazil
   Upper secondary adult
   Jen Griffiths, Deal, Kent, UK
   
4. Students teach each other literature
   ( lernen durch lehren)
   Working with " The curious incident of the dog in the night-time"
   Mark Haddon, Vintage
   Upper secondary
   Rosmarie Frick, Bozen/Bolzano, Italy
   
5. Giving feedback on written work
   Secondary adult
   Robert Buckmaster, Triinu Soomere, Estonia
   
6. Enjoying the twilight years
   Ending a career
   Paul Bress, Kent, UK
   
7. A trainee's perspective on how "born teachers" are actually made
   Andreja Hazabent, Ljubljana, Slovenia
   
8. Why Danes detest tests
   The Danish approach to curriculum thinking-
   a remnant from the past or a model for the future?
   Secondary
   Poul Otto Mortensen, County Education Centre, Vejle,Denmark.
   
9. Swear words:
   do they have a place in the EFL classroom?
   Adult
   Stefan Chiarantano, Japan
   

Ideas from the Corpora

Using corpora to develop materials on collocation
Upper secondary adult
Felicity O'Dell, Cambridge, UK

Lesson Outlines

Children at the Window
Secondary adult
Lou Spaventa, California, USA

Student Voices

Real achievement
or
Why sitting in class is boring when you are 14
Secondary
Bruno Rinvolucri ( at age 14)

Publications

1. Seven brief reviews The Teacher Trainer 19.1

An Old Exercise

Introducing yourself to the class in a different way
A technique from the 1980's
Primary secondary adult
Leslie Bob Wolff, Universidad de la Laguna, Canarias, Spain.

Pilgrims Course Outline

EU Comenius and Grundtvig funding for our teacher training courses
Jim Wright, Director of Teacher Training

Readers Letters

1. And you think I am too old to learn a language?( Cornish)
Heather Kessell, Penryn, Cornwall, UK

2. A letter on student autonomy
Sharon Hartle, University of Verona, Italy

Teacher Resource Books Review

The Teaching of Literature
Paul Cammack, Manchester, UK

Poems

Perception Poem
Alan Broomhead, Oise School,Boston, Mass. US