Welcome to MaWSIG

We are the IATEFL Materials Writing Special Interest Group. We provide support for materials writers of all levels of experience, whether you’ve been publishing for years, you’re taking the first steps in sharing your materials with a wider audience, or you want to improve what you use in your classroom every day.

We’re an active SIG, with lots going on. Take a look at our blog, Twitter, Instagram and facebook, keep up with our webinars, or join one of our face-to-face events.

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I’m delighted to have been a founding member of the MaWSIG committee. It was so exciting to hold our first events and find our tribe coming together. And as time’s gone by, it’s great to see more and more teachers with a passion for writing good quality materials for use in class or for wider publication coming together and sharing their knowledge and expertise. Keep up the good work!

Karen White

Upcoming events

MaWSIG PCE 2024: Looking forward, looking back

Monday 15 April, 09:30 UK time

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Upcoming events

A journey through time: redesigning materials for the 21st century

Monday 25 March, 14:30-15:30 UK time (check the time in your time zone)

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Latest posts

So many Englishes webinar: Q&A

Oct 1, 2019

In this blog post, Karen Spiller follows up on some of the questions that were left unanswered in the Q&A section at the end of the recent joint TESOL Association MWIS and MaWSIG webinar: So many Englishes! What does this mean for writers and publishers? The...

Hidden identities and silenced voices

Sep 20, 2019

Following our customary August break, David Valente kicks off the new blogging season with a thought-provoking reflection on hidden identities and silenced voices in published English materials for primary learners. If any primary-aged child learning...

Writing in Japan

Jul 30, 2019

In the third and final blog in our mini-series of posts from ELT writers based in non-Anglophone countries, Marcos Benevides shares his perspective as an EFL teacher, writer and innovator based in Tokyo. As an economically developed nation that invests heavily in...