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LEAD: Learn – Experiment – Apply – Develop

Please join us for this important discussion on the future of humanistic approaches in English Language Teaching with different perspectives from our experienced panel. The session will be recorded and published in the forthcoming issue of the Teacher Trainer Journal. To register for the event please send an email to info@pilgrims.co.uk

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Dear readers,

Welcome to the November 2025 issue of The Pilgrims Teacher Trainer Journal.

As usual, our contributions reflect global realities – in this issue, contributors are from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, India, Israel, Italy, Norway, Slovakia, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

It is a pleasure to be able to print our lead article by Nayr Ibrahim on “From teacher to activist: Visualise, decolonise and demonolingualise ELT”. There may be some controversy in the title, though Pilgrims has never shied away from controversy and we would love discussion on Nayr’s ideas. The principle, though, we totally support in moving the discussion in English language teaching to one of the importance of how a first, home or strongest language can be a most powerful way of supporting English language or any learning. Together with Nayr’s article, also in this issue Belma Kartal discusses the importance of using translation in the ELT classroom.

One of our innovations is we now have a sponsored section – Macenta Publishing & Digital Solutions are the first company to take up our offer to do so promoting The Globals product which combines education and action to promote the UN Sustainable Development Goals. This includes both a text interview and an advert. We would be very pleased to discuss placing adverts and advertorials by other companies in future issues if you’d like to contact us.

Another of our innovations in The PilgrimsTeacher Trainer Journal recently has been the introduction of video conversations, and in this issue, we have three. Firstly, Nick Michelioudakis discusses the importance of a focus on psychology in language teaching. Secondly, with Rama Mathew, we discuss her extensive experience on the theme of teacher as a learner and learner as a teacher and her personal journal in teacher education. Our third interview is conducted by Chang Liu who has previously written for the journal. Chang interviews Alan Maley on his recent publication Using wisdom stories to promote CPD. This is a long interview, and we are delighted to present both Chang’s and Alan’s voices on this issue.

We continue with our two serialised contributions: by Penny Ur – in this issue on the native English teacher – and by Sandra Piai on her personal reflections on an incredible learning journey.

Finally we have a contribution from Marek Hlinka from Slovakia representing our close collaboration with Learn & Lead Innovation network on Marek’s Involvement with Pilgrims Teacher Training in Segovia, Spain.

In The Pilgrims Teacher Trainer Journal we continue our existing collaboration with the British Council Teacher Educator Network through the British Council teacher educator newsletter British Council Teacher Educator Newsletter January 2026. We also continue to collaborate with the MenTRnet network https://mentrnet.net/ as we give voice to teacher educators across the world. Please see also a link to the MenTRnet research website https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/research/ Many of these voices are new, young (and more mature) teacher educators who may not have had access to publishing before. We are also very pleased to link now with the new https://www.tesol-spain.org/en/pages/18/publications.html and to support the TESOL Spain Convention in March 2026. https://www.tesol-spain.org/en/pages/5/convention-2026.html We are also pleased to support the TESOL Spain Building Bridges – Building Co-operation 5th Online Conference International TESOL Associations 28th–29th November. More information on this event can be found in the journal and via the TESOL Spain website. What’s on? | TESOL SPAIN Continuing our magazine collaboration we are also pleased to be linked to the Munich Teachers Association Newsletter Munich English Language Teachers Association Newsletter

As always, we continue to support and promote our sister magazine Humanising Language Teaching https://www.hltmag.co.uk/oct25/

We are now planning our teacher training courses in Segovia, Spain in July 2026. Our current information is available on the Pilgrims website https://www.pilgrims.co.uk/teacher-training-courses/pilgrims-in-segovia We would love to have you join us.

We hope you continue to enjoy The Pilgrims Teacher Trainer Journal and our contribution to encouraging the best of good practice in teacher education. As always, we would be delighted to receive feedback on any of the articles which you can send to me at the email address below and we would love to receive contributions – articles, interviews, book and resources reviews from teacher educators globally. A brief description of the guidelines for writers can be found on the website.

For more detailed information contact Phil at the email address below.

Phil: phil.dexter@pilgrimsttj.com

We would love to receive contributions – articles, interviews, book and resources reviews from teacher educators globally. A brief description of the guidelines for writers can be found on the website. For more detailed information contact Phil: phil.dexter@pilgrimsttj.com

A brief description of the guidelines for writers can be found on the website. For more detailed information contact Phil: phil.dexter@pilgrimsttj.com. Our Teacher Trainer Journal is very much a public face of Pilgrims in promoting excellence in education.

The journal continues to be intended to be YOUR VOICE in reflecting and sharing global ideas on teacher education. In doing this, sometimes an article may seem to be a little controversial and though we strive for everything to be evidence-informed, this also means there may be strong personal views on a topic. We believe that The Pilgrims Teacher Trainer Journal should be a space for this. And, of course, we welcome debate and would very much welcome any responses to articles that we publish.

phil.dexter@pilgrimsttj.com