Editorial

Pilgrims News

1. Pilgrims: New Times - Responding to Our New Realities,  Phil Dexter, Teacher Trainer Coordinator and Editor of The Pilgrims Teacher Trainer Journal
2. 34th IATEFL Poland International Conference, 19th-21st September, 2025, Hania Kryszewska, Pilgrims Trainer

ELT News

1. The Simon Greenall Award 2026
2. A New Cross Curricular Event Coming Up! News from APPI
3. The MATSDA/UAEH Conference, Wednesday June 3rd - Thursday June 4th, 2026
4. Bell School Closing Down

 

Various Articles - Young Learners

1. Differentiating Instruction for Young Learners: Overcoming the Challenges of Mixed-Age and Mixed-Ability English Classes, Aliya Kurmanova, Kazakhstan

Various Articles - Grammar

1. Grammar as Process or Product? Re-thinking Grammar Pedagogy in IELTS Writing Classes in Chinese International High Schools, Yue Yang, China

Various Articles - Story telling

1. Story, Story, Tell Us a Story: Storytelling in Language Teaching and Learning, Vera Cabrera Duarte, Elizabeth M. Pow and Maria Aparecida Caltabiano, Brazil 

Various Articles - Technology

1. Reducing Second Language Learning Anxiety Among ELT Diploma Trainees in Sri Lanka: The Role of AI Duolingo, Priyanka Kumarasinghe, Sri Lanka
2. Taiwanese Freshmen’s Preferences and the Effects on Vocabulary Acquisition of Online Annotation for Reading an Extended Text, Chin-Wen Chien, Taiwan
3. Assessing Listening Placement Tests in English through Digital Technologies, Alexis Vasquez, Colombia
4. Formative Assessment Using Time Sequenced Analysis: Assessing Learning According to the Way Languages are Acquired, Miriam C.A. Semeniuk, Canada

Various Articles - Syllabus design

1. Needs Analysis: The Pillar of Syllabus Design, Azzeddine Bencherab and Shabir Hassan Banday, UAE

Various Articles - Classroom Interaction

1. Social Skills for Successful Student Groups, George M Jacobs and Marla Lise, Singapore

Various Articles - Inclusion

1. Incorporating Resources for Hope in Classrooms with Transnational Students, Laura E. Mendoza, United States
2. Bridging Generations Through Shared Stories: A Review of Jacobs and Renandya's Approach to the Universal Language of Reading Aloud, Puvana Gnanasagaran, Malaysia

Various Articles - Motivation and Engagement

1. A survey on Learning Motivation of Senior English Majors Between Some Public and Private Universities in Ho Chi Minh City, Trần Bảo Huân, Vietnam
2. Regulating Learners՚ Engagement: A Journey of Self-discovery, Anestin Lum Chi, Cameroon

 

EMBR.ACE

1. From Stress to Flow: Rehumanising Exam Culture, Effie Kyrikaki, Greece

 

Lesson Ideas

1. Xmas Card Activities, Hanna Kryszewska, Poland
2. TikTok Style Video Reaches ELT, Ben Goldstein, UK and Spain

 

The Creativity Group

1. Know-Ask-Explore-Learn: Taking Advantage of Learner Curiosity, Chrysa Papalazarou, Greece
2. The Teacher, the Poet and the Critic: Change Cannot be Postponable, Fernanda Felix Binati, Colombia
3. Telling Their Stories to the World – Showing Support and Expressing Admiration for the Children of Gaza, Haneen Khaled Jadallah Palestine and UK, and David Heathfield, UK
4. More than Methods: Using Stories to Humanize CPD: An Interview with Alan Maley, Chang Liu, China and UK

 

Voices

1. On Snow, Christmas and the British, Mojca Belak, Slovenia
2. Palestinian Students’ Teachings on Life, Hope and Sumud, Stephen Reilly, UK
3. Three Voices from Pavilion

Publications

1. Short Book Reviews, Hanna (Hania) Kryszewska, Poland

 

Poems 

1. Hippo, Marc Carver, UK

 

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