by Web Editor | May 15, 2019 | Graded readers, Language and Literature
To end our series of posts covering the MaWSIG-LitSIG joint Pre-Conference Event in Liverpool on 1 April 2019, and following on from yesterday’s blog about how to write graded readers, Andrew Dilger and the OUP ELT design team designed a poster showing how Oxford...
by Web Editor | May 3, 2019 | Graded readers, Language and Literature, Reading for pleasure
In the third of our posts covering the MaWSIG-LitSIG joint Pre-Conference Event in Liverpool on 1 April 2019, Alan Pulverness describes a project that enabled teachers to use literature in classrooms at all levels. BritLit was a British Council project devoted to...
by Web Editor | Oct 12, 2017 | Digital, ELT publishing, Graded readers, Materials writing, Story writing
When I was seven years old, I came across the most amazing thing. On the cover, it said, ‘A fighting fantasy gamebook in which YOU become the hero!’ It was The Warlock of Firetop Mountain by Ian Livingston and Steve Jackson, a gamebook where you played the role of an...
by Web Editor | Mar 27, 2017 | ELT publishing, Graded readers, Materials writing
Our latest blog post is by Richard MacAndrew, who urges readers not to lose hope if a project takes a while to find a publisher. The MaWSIG blog features guest posts by members – please get in touch if you would like to write for us. Seventeen years ago I started...