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 […]
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, […]
Conference countdown: What do you do to get conference-ready?
The IATEFL conference and PCE days are approaching fast. Are you starting to think about it? If you are a freelancer involved in materials development, a conference is an ideal opportunity to promote yourself. After all, if we don’t tell people about our amazing writing skills, how we can follow briefs, do rewrites and stick […]
MaWSIG Showcase 2022: What I talk about when I talk about coursebooks
In this blog post, Julie Norton and Heather Buchanan (MaWSIG Coordinator) share a short video where they talk about the presentation they gave during the MaWSIG Showcase day at the IATEFL 2022 conference in Belfast. Julie Norton is a lecturer in Applied Linguistics and TESOL at the University of Leicester, UK and an ELT materials […]
Women in coursebooks now and then: how representation has changed (MaWSIG Showcase day 2022)
In this post, Elaine Hodgson writes about a study conducted by herself and Viviane Kirmeliene into the representation of women in coursebooks, presented at the 55th IATEFL Conference in Belfast (2022) as part of the MaWSIG Showcase day. When we consider our role as ELT educators, materials writers and editors in a world that is […]