The MaWSIG PCE Warm-up Webinars: Self-publishing

The first of our PCE Warm-Up webinar series, ‘Self-publishing ELT materials’, was led by Walton Burns. Based on his experience running his own indie publishing company, Walton guided the audience through the steps of self-publishing. Below are some of the questions that emerged in his presentation, and that he kindly answered for those interested in […]

Self-publishing in ELT: ensuring quality through the editorial process

The last decade has seen an explosion of self-publishing in the ELT world, which has created a multitude of exciting opportunities for teachers to become content creators and to produce more relevant, niche or localised materials. In a survey I conducted a few years ago I asked a group of self-published authors why they’d chosen […]

Adventures in self-publishing

In the first of a series of summer blogposts on the MaWSIG website, teachers Lucy Holmes and Sharlene Matharu describe how they identified and filled a gap in the market.

Writing ELT materials in Morocco

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 different parts of the world, I started thinking […]

In my day, things were different! An old buffer* writes …

Our latest blog post is by Ken Wilson, who shares his thoughts on how the ELT materials writing world has changed over the last few decades. The MaWSIG blog features guest posts by members – please get in touch if you would like to write for us.