Writing digital ELT materials
In this post, Laura Broadbent and Billie Jago, who run Otterelt (a digital ELT agency providing digital content expertise and editorial services to leading publishers and educational institutions), summarise the presentation they gave at the MaWSIG Showcase at the IATEFL conference in Harrogate. Their workshop addressed the design of digital materials for a self-study app […]
Decolonising ELT materials: Challenging Western supremacy and processes of othering, using the example of Africa
In this post, Lena Hertzel summarises her presentation at the MaWSIG showcase during the IATEFL conference in Harrogate in April. In her talk, Lena focused on the problematic representations of Africa in ELT coursebooks, and offered guidelines for materials writers to decolonise their materials. Postcolonial power structures and knowledge archives continue to shape our […]
Moving away from a one-size-fits-all approach when using prescribed ELT materials
In this post, Susanna Schwab from the Bern University of Teacher Education, who trains pre-service primary school teachers to teach English as a foreign language, summarises the main points of her talk at the IATEFL (2023) MaWSIG Showcase in Harrogate. Her talk focused on how teachers use prescribed coursebooks in Switzerland. In this talk, […]