Dear HLT Readers

Welcome to the May issue of HLT. This spring is very busy. We have just got back from two conferences – TESOL Spain and IATEFL UK and soon off to APPI conference in Portugal. This is where we liaise, make new contacts, get inspired and harvest articles. More details in Pilgrims News by Phil Dexter, Pilgrims Teacher Training coordinator and editor the Teacher Trainer Journal.

We are also busy planning for our Pilgrims summer in Segovia and the Pilgrims Conference 10th – 11^th October. And of course, don’t miss the TTJ AI Panel coming soon. We hope to welcome you at our events so see you there.

   

Other ELT developments worth telling you about are: MATSDA/UAEH Conference: The Value of Texts as L2 Language Learning Materials  and T-Ching - A New Podcast from Adrian Underhill and Jim Scrivener.

The articles in this this issue of HLT are grouped around three themes: teaching at tertiary level combined with CLIL, looking at our learners and teacher development.

In the first group we have: Study Program for English for Information Technology Specialists in the Air Navigation Sector by C. Dora M. Troitiño Díaz, Perceptions of Students in Using ChatGPT in Translation Subjects at Van Lang University by Le Bao Chau and Pham Que Anh, Small Words Big Impact - Three Barriers to Level 2 Success in the STANAG 6001 Writing Exam: Tenses, Auxiliaries, and Text Complexity by Robert Helán and Radomira  Bednářová, and Code-Switching and its Impacts on Students’ Motivation of Practice in English Speaking at Van Lang University by Ton Thien Quynh Tram and Nguyen Bach Hue.

The following two texts Mapping Emotional Energy in the Language Classroom by Lynsey Helen Mori, and How Students Really See Our Feedback: Observe, Reflect, and Act by  Yasmeen Saif Al Tai, are devoted to students in the classroom.

The biggest body of articles is devoted to the teaching profession: Heritage Background: The Effect on Teacher Identity and Practice by Cansu Doğlu and Carol  Griffiths, Selling as an Act of Alignment by Rachael Roberts, Fiction in Teaching: Using non-ELT Books to Arrive at ELT Notions by Ian Michael Robinson, Interview with Alan Maley: Native-speakerism in ELT by Albert P’Rayan and Alan Maley, and MEXTESOL Press: 5 Years of Publishing for Professional Development in Mexico by  Jorge Torres Almazán, Victor M. II Arizabalo Navarro.

Our regular columns are doing well and offer inspiring articles: from Eco Issues – review of  An A-Z of Global Justice  London: Global Justice Now, from EMBR.ACE - Wellbeing Literacy: The Missing Language of Teaching in ELT (and not only), from No Project - A Pre-determined SECRET CODE: This Could Save a Life,  from Psychology and ELT - How to Become Number One, from the Creativity Group Two Calls for Help, and we welcome a new column from MATSDA - Greetings from the President, Brian Tomlinson, President and Founder of MATSDA.

As usual there are some great lesson ideas in: Every Child is an Artist: Visual Representation and Learner Generated Visuals in ELT by Chrysa Papalazarou, Free the Bee – Animated Storytelling with Young Learners in Gaza by Luzan Matar and David Heathfield, Learning from Freedom by Daniel Costa, Blogging as a Tool to Develop Written Expression by Gretel Victoria Calderón Ruiz, Teaching Adults in TTC Courses by Narjes Nasrpour, and https://www.hltmag.co.uk/may26/silent-way-of-crocheting-university by Anna Turula.

Don’t miss the publishers’ news ( Pavilion ELT and DELTA Publishing) and Short Book Reviews by Hanna (Hania) Kryszewska where you can find information on new exciting and inspiring titles. Perhaps you would like to review a book yourselves and publish in HLT?

For your entertainment there is humour in TESTING TIMES Special American English Edition: US President to Annexe British Council and Goethe-Institut to Make American English Great Again! by Geoff Tranter and some poetry Haiku Style Lines Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth with the Last Verse by Fernanda Felix Binati.       

Finally, remember I am very happy to hear from you so please contribute to the section called To the Editor and don’t forget that now it is possible to do Paid advertising in HLT.

Enjoy the May issue of HLT

 

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