Self-publishing in ELT: ensuring quality through the editorial process
The last decade has seen an explosion of self-publishing in the ELT world, which has created a multitude of exciting opportunities for teachers to become content creators and to produce more relevant, niche or localised materials. In a survey I conducted a few years ago I asked a group of self-published authors why they’d chosen […]
MaWSIG PCE: Bring your ideas to life using mood boards – Colin Morton
This is the fifth of our summaries from the IATEFL MaWSIG Pre-Conference Event, which was held online on Friday, 18 June 2021. In his talk, Colin Morton looked at a key aspect of ELT publishing which is not often discussed: the role of mood boards in materials design. Thanks to Sandy Millin for providing the summary. What […]
MaWSIG PCE: 50 ways to avoid gap-fill fatigue
The second session of the day was a practical presentation by John Hughes on why we write gap-fill exercises, how we can write them more effectively, and how we can make them more interesting. Here’s a brief summary of John’s presentation with links at the end to his videos on the topic. Few of us are […]
MaWSIG PCE: Strategies to survive overwhelm
This is the third of our summaries from the IATEFL MaWSIG Pre-Conference Event, which was held online on Friday, 18 June 2021. In her talk, Rachael Roberts gave us some tips to avoid and deal with overwhelm – that feeling you can get when you’ve taken on too much. Thanks to Clare Maas for providing […]