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Humanising Language Teaching

February 2025 - Year 27 - Issue 1

ISSN 1755-9715

Rationale

                                       

HLT is a member of the DOAJ association (directory of open access quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals); it has been accepted for indexing at "Genomics JournalSeek" , Open J-Gate, Cabell’s Directories and EBSCO.

12 Reasons why you may want to read HLT

  • It is a free website magazine.

  • It offers a wealth of articles every two month.

  • You can read thirteen years’ worth of articles from the HLT archive.

  • You can download or print out your favourite articles.

  • You can keep in touch with recent trends and developments in ELT.

  • Contributors come from all over the world offering new perspectives.

  • You can find practical ideas as well as more theoretical papers.

  • It can help you in your TT education if you are in pre-service.

  • It will help you improve your own teaching.

  • It will help you reflect on your own teaching.

  • It is a great tool for self-development.

  • It can help you in training future teachers if you are a teacher trainer.

Call for papers!

13 Reasons why you may want to write for HLT

  • It enhances your CV. You receive a certificate of publication.

  • It enhances your profile in your school and in the teachers’ community.

  • You get published without being asked if you have published before, unlike many other publications.

  • Your students’ voices about learning and teaching.

  • You publish alongside well-known authors.

  • Your name becomes known in the field.

  • When someone ‘googles’ your name it pops up in a professional context.

  • Readers in your field can contact you directly and exchange ideas.

  • Writing articles may be the first step in your future book writing projects.

  • It is challenging and fun which helps you escape the ‘stuck in the rut’ syndrome of day-to-day lesson planning.

  • Publishing helps you to reflect on your own teaching.

  • You share with other teachers and your ideas are not just sitting in your file or notebook.

  • You get constructive advice from the Editor on how to go about writing.

What can you contribute?

Pilgrims News

Pilgrims news and initiatives, grant opportunities, available Pilgrims scholarships, and conferences Pilgrims trainers or staff have attended or will attend. Also publishes articles describing experiences of teachers who attended Pilgrims courses.

Voices

Learners or pre-service teachers, practising teachers, writers, ELT managers, publishers and other people working in the ELT field  write about their learning experiences, observations or reflections on language teaching and learning.

Various articles

Articles from 2 -20 pages long - either more on the academic side, including some research description and results, or more ELT magazine-like, but all must have a practical humanistic angle, and inform or inspire teachers of English or other languages.

Publications

Publishes book previews, reviews of recently published books or new editions. Readers can write their own ELT reviews that they would like to share with the readers, share a book pre-view, or write an author’s auto-review of a book they have written themselves.

21st Century Skills

Articles focusing on the field, especially critical thinking and problem solving, creativity and innovation, collaboration and working in teams, media literacy and applying technology, leadership and project management.

Humour

Publishes anything readers find funny and worth sharing but relating to ELT, e.g. jokes, cartoons, anecdotes from the classroom, or an article on using humour in class or the role of humour in language teaching.

Lesson Outlines

Practical classroom activities in the form of a lesson plan with brief theoretical background if you choose to include it.

Poems 

Publishes teacher’s own poems, poems translated into English by teachers or other people’s poems if permission to do so is granted.

Golden Classics

Presents a forgotten classic exercise or exercises or evergreens worth sharing with the the young generation of teachers. This is also the place to publish a forgotten or discarded book or idea which does not deserve its fate.

To the Editor

Publishes your news, comments and information readers want to share or correspondence with the Editor. Unless it is publicity material, contributors are asked to give permission to republish their text, with or without amendments. 

The Creativity Group

Contains articles published by C group members or news about C group developments, initiatives and publications they have been involved in.

Our Partners

Lists our partners, befriended schools, organisations and publishers with whom Pilgrims trainers, past and present, have published.

NEW!!! Eco Issues in HLT

Lesson Ideas, Articles, Voices or Book Reviews which aim to inform, inspire, involve and show what ideas could be spread  and how practical actions could be implemented to avert the imminent global environmental catastrophe. We language educators can lead and make a difference.

 

For more ideas look up the website and see what various authors have written at www.hltmag.co.uk   or in the archives at https://www.hltmag.co.uk/prev  and at

 http://old.hltmag.co.uk/prev.html

 

Contributor’s guidelines on the website

Editor’s email: hania.kryszewska@pilgrimsteachertraining.eu