by Web Editor | Feb 21, 2018 | ELT publishing, Materials writing, Publishers
Our series on writing ELT materials for different markets around the world now takes us to Spain, where Amanda McLoughlin shares her experiences. I came to Spain almost 20 years ago as a recently qualified and very naïve EFL teacher and settled in the cold and rainy...
by Web Editor | Feb 13, 2018 | ELT publishing, Materials writing, Publishers
This blog post is the latest in our series of posts on ELT materials writing around the world. Here, ESP writer Moundir Al Amrani looks at the state of ELT materials writing in Morocco. After reading some of the other blog posts about writing ELT materials in...
by Web Editor | Feb 6, 2018 | ELT publishing, Publishers
This post is the second in our series on working in ELT materials development around the world. Here, Clare Maas describes the situation in Germany. In Germany, there are just a couple of key local publishers (e.g. Cornelsen, Klett) who dominate the market alongside...
by Web Editor | Jan 16, 2018 | ELT publishing, Publishers
This is the first of a series of blog posts in which ELT materials writers around the world share their thoughts on writing in specific countries. Here, Tania Pattison describes her experiences writing for a major publisher in Canada. The MaWSIG blog has recently...
by Web Editor | Nov 7, 2017 | ELT publishing, Materials writing
Our latest blog post is by Penny Ur, who discusses the need for materials writers to pay attention to research on language learning. I’ve just read Katherine Bilsborough’s blog entry ‘ELT materials writing: More on emerging principles’. I really enjoyed it and learned...
by Web Editor | Oct 24, 2017 | Digital, ELT publishing, Materials writing, Publishers
In this blog post, Jill Florent details her extensive experience of the evolution of ELT publishing – from process to product and working relationships. Manuscripts, typewriters and paste-ups Since my publishing career began in the late 1970s, I’ve seen a lot of...