Dear HLT Readers, 

Welcome to the February issue of HLT.

First some Pilgrims News: This New Year, Segovia Becomes Our New Canterbury from Till Gins, Lead Officer, Pilgrims, with some news about new developments and ideas.

On 18th  January we had another  Pilgrim Café: Thinking Ahead into The Future: Sustainability in the 21st Century. You ban watch the recording here.

Don’t miss the next Pilgrims Café

Pilgrims trainers have been very busy attending conferences. You can read about these events in HUPE: A Report from 32nd Annual International HUPE Conference Nov 15-17, 2024 Valamar Poreć, Croatia by Marta Bujakowska, TESOL France 15th-17th  November, Paris 2024 by Hania Kryszewska, and The 49th.Annual TESOL - Italy Convention by Stephania Ballotto. All of the conferences have been very inspiring and in the April issue of HLT you will be able to read articles by some of the people we have met professionally.

Soon we will be attending some more conferences: APPI Conference, Lisbon 25th -27th April, 2025, ESOL-SPAIN 48th Annual National Convention, 14-16th March, 2025, Burgos, TESOL Athens, Greece 46th Convention 8 – 9 March, 2025 and IATEFL Edinburgh 8th -11th  April,  2025. We hope to meet you there. If not, you will hear from us about the conferences.

In this issue there are articles about teaching at all levels: Reading Aloud with Everyone by George M Jacobs and Willy A Renandya and Learning a Language on the Run by Maria Liudvika Drazdauskiene, and teaching just at the tertiary level: Improving EFL University Courses Through Practical Techniques from The Science of Learning by Hall Houston and Effects of Task-Based Language Teaching on Students’ Grammar Acquisition at Van Lang University by Tran Thi Thanh Mai, and Determining Authenticity in the Era of ChatGPT by Shin Minsong, Lee Jiwon, Jeon Juyeon and Max Watson.

There are two articles about the teaching profession: Musings of an Academic Manager  by Jim Fuller, and The Thriving Freelancer: Annual Review of My Business 2024  by Rachael Roberts.

I am very happy  that the Eco issues section is going strong with three contributions: My New Book: "Activities for a Greener Mindset"  by Harry Waters, Reflecting Sustainability in ELT: A Materials Writer’s Perspective by John Hughes, and ECO Poem: Without… by Alan Maley.

There are great lesson ideas in Enhancing English Language Learning with Google Arts & Culture by Flora Debora Floris, ‘Sophie the Lady and Mouse in the House’: Arts and Crafts  ELT Project for  Young Learners by Sylwia Zabor-Żakowska, Ten Years of ETpedia: Twenty Activities from Pavilion, and Graded Readers and Oxford Reading Club: Today and in the Past by Hania (Hanna) Kryszewska.

Don’t miss the Voices section with reflections on teaching from Roy J Andersen and the 

Publications section with reviews of  Teaching Young Language Learners Through Stories by Sharon Ahlquist, VESPA from Crown House Publishing, and Review of Jeremy Harmer’s (2023) Artemio’s Fire and Old Gods from  Wayzgoose Press by Alan Maley.

Enjoy the February issue

 

Hanna (Hania) Kryszewska
HLT Editor
Email: hania.kryszewska@pilgrimsteachertraining.eu