by Ciarán Lynch | Jul 26, 2023 | Materials writing, MaWSIG
In this post, Lena Hertzel summarises her presentation at the MaWSIG showcase during the IATEFL conference in Harrogate in April. In her talk, Lena focused on the problematic representations of Africa in ELT coursebooks, and offered guidelines for materials writers to...
by Web Editor | May 25, 2023 | Materials writing, MaWSIG Showcase
In this post, Peter J Fullagar (he/him) writes about the workshop he led at the 56th IATEFL Conference in Harrogate (2023) as part of the MaWSIG Showcase day. I am one of the growing number of open LGBTQIA+ ELT professionals making noises about representation in...
by Web Editor | Feb 23, 2023 | Materials writing
As part of our ‘MaWSIG Meets’ webinar series, Annie Altamirano of TESOL Spain led the webinar ‘MaWSIG meets TESOL Spain: The what, the why and the how of writing a teacher’s book’. This post answers some of the questions that emerged during her talk. Q: Over the years...
by Web Editor | Feb 22, 2023 | IATEFL, Materials writing, MaWSIG, PCE, Video
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...
by Sandy Millin | Oct 26, 2021 | Materials writing, MaWSIG, PCE
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...
by Web Editor | May 24, 2021 | #meetmawsig, Materials writing
Katherine Bilsborough and Ceri Jones report back on one of the areas that provoked discussion in their webinar, Re-inventing the Green Wheel, which they presented as part of the Meet MaWSIG webinar series. On 15 January 2021, we led a webinar on the topic of writing...
