Dear HLT Readers,

Welcome to the June issue of HLT. First some Pilgrims news. We are getting for the Pilgrims summer in Galway, Ireland. You will find more information in Message from Chaz Pugliese, Director of Education and Teacher Training, Pilgrims.

There is also information about the New Issue of the Teacher Trainer Journal  sponsored by Pilgrims and edited by Phil Dexter from Pilgrims.

There is also a Pilgrims theme in the Golden Classics section - in Book Review - Dictation: New Methods, New Possibilities by Paul Davis and Mario Rinvolucri, which is remembered by Stephen Tarbuck.

In this issue there is a wealth of lesson ideas: Dara and Friends - for Young Readers of Fairy Tales by Rostislava Grozdeva, A Poem-based Activity by John Kay, SEO Scout in a Writing Task: Scouting Out the Way to Write a Lead Section in a Wikipedia Article by Ronnakrit Rangsarittikun, Spin the Question by Pak Man Au, Peer Reviewing in Writing: An Ongoing Activity by Anila R. Scott-Monkhouse, Stepping Off of the Eternal Phonics Treadmill by George Loetter, Problems of Using Gerunds to Open Sentences in Academic Writing by  Lander Hawes, and Corpus-based Teaching Materials for Oil and Gas Students by Musaeva Fariza.

More lesson and project ideas can be found in the 21^st Century Skills section: An Online School Magazine in English, by Valentina Batagelj, Reviving Arts to Promote Self-Expressions in English Language Classroom by Sirhajwan Idek, and Exploring English Teacher’s Perspectives on the Relevance of Teaching Entrepreneurship in Freshman Year by Rasha Osman Abd el Haliem.

The articles focus on clasrrom psychology (Self-esteem Bingo: Building Our Learners’ Psychological Resources in the ESOL Classroom by Orsolya Dunn), SEN (How to Bring English as a Foreign Language to Hospitalized Primary School Students by Giorgia Fattori, and Strategies for Assisting English Language Learners with Specific Learning Difficulties (SLDs) in the Writing Centre by Jimalee Sowell) and general issues relating to learning languages (Teaching Ourselves a Language: Checkpoint on the Path of Self-Instructed Language Learners by Timothy M. Cook, and Teaching the Use of the Mother Tongue in French Language Training for Adults in Algeria by Mohamed Gacemi).

As usual there are contributions from the C Group, some poems and humour.

Enjoy this issue of HLT

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