Dear HLT Readers,

Welcome to the August issue of HLT. The Pilgrims’ news is that the courses in Galway are going well and wish you were there. But there will be a chance for some of us to meet in the autumn at various conferences like: GlobELT 2023: 9th International Conference on Teaching and Learning English as an Additional Language, or 32nd IATEFL Poland International Conference.

In this issue Pilgrims trainers, friends and colleagues are Remembering Philip Prowse who sadly is no longer with us.

Philip Prowse

The C Group has made many contributions to various sections of this issue of HLT: article (Offering Learner Choice by Brian Tomlinson), lesson ideas (A Little Bit of Grammar and Using Stills from a Film by Jamie Keddie, A Beheaded Poem by Nuria Smyth with Hanna Kryszewska), and a Golden Classic (An Activity from More Grammar Games by Mario Rinvolucri and Paul Davis by Hanna Kryszewska). There are also two voices from Danny Singh (Are Face-to-Face Conferences Still Worth Going To? and Is the Queen Really Dead?, and some Humour ‘in the box, or ‘outside the box’.

The next two C Group contributions are in tune with what I have been observing for some time, namely TEFL or EFL teachers and authors writing fiction – novels and short stories (e.g., late Philip Prowse, Ken Wilson or Andrew Wright) or pomes (e.g., Alan Maley, Michael Swan, Phuong Le). In this issue you can read about Story Poems by Andrew Wright and Reflections, a new e-book of poems by Alan Maley and Chrysa Papalazarou.

You can find more about the role of writing fiction as a form of CPD in Fine, I'll Do It Myself: How Writing a Novel for English Learners Changed the Way I Prepare My Own English Classes by Eli Walgrave, and about the global impact and burning issues addressed in Rhymed Reflections: A Forest of Ideas, Ideals, Dignity and Peace by Francisco Gomez de Matos.

I am also very happy to hear that Jamie Keddie, a regular C Group contributor, will be performing at the famous Edinburgh Fringe, a street events festival. It is the “world’s largest performance arts festival (…), established as an alternative to the Edinburgh International Festival”. Congratulations Jamie!

So, if you are in Edinburgh then, don’t miss seeing Jamie in his new role!

               

All this is to show how creative TEFLers are and how they branch out beyond their teaching and EFL writing professions. Of course, not to mention those who make music and play instruments (e.g., Jeremy Harmer, Adrian Underhill, Chaz Pugliese and Tim Bowen).

Other topics in this issue include mediation (Mediation in the ELT Classroom, and On Point, by the Cathy Rogers), cross-cultural communication (On the Role of Perceptual Acuity and Awareness of Sociocultural Cues in Cross-cultural Communication by Grażyna Kiliańska-Przybyło), wellbeing (A Literature Review: The Impact of Light on Students’ Learning Performance by Bahar Kızıltunalı), 21^st century skills (Content-based Instruction, Critical Media Literacy, and HBO’s The Wire by Todd Hull, How Video in The Classroom Can Revolutionize Learning by  Cris Mark Baroro, and Integrating Business and Entrepreneurship in the English Language Classroom by Rasha Osman Abdel Haliem), and many more.

Enjoy this issue of HLT.

 

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