Blogs

In this post, Niki Joseph summarises the key points from her talk at the Pre-Conference in Brighton on 20 April 2026. She discusses the expertise that Teacher’s Guide writers bring to their work, the role of Teacher’s Guides in teacher professional development, and key principles for writing effective Teacher’s Guides.

In this post, Elisa Fia discusses how the Montessori approach can inform the design of materials, providing specific ways in which materials writers and teachers can do so, whilst also discussing the limitations of this pedagogy for specific educational contexts.

In this post, Marcela Danowski summarises the main points of her webinar, which addressed the creation of exam materials. In her talk, she discussed how we can help learners go beyond practice only, to meaningful communication using routines such as Slow Looking, Visual Thinking, and Hexagonal Thinking.

In this blog post, Jennifer Murray summarises her presentation at the Pre-Conference Event in Edinburgh 2025. Her talk focused on how we can improve our online reading materials, providing useful tips and tools for the attendees.

Drawing on over 30 years of experience in business English teaching and English for Specific Purposes (ESP), primarily in corporate training contexts, Evan Frendo set out to do two things during his webinar for MaWSIG on 5 June 2025: deconstruct English as a business lingua franca (BELF), and discuss its impact on the broader ELT industry, and offer some insights into the world of corporate language training materials and the opportunities it presents for materials writers. This is his summary of his presentation.

In this post, Laurens Lamberts summarises his talk at the MaWSIG Showcase in Edinburgh, where he spoke about the relationship between motivation and gamification, offering a framework to help teachers engage their learners.