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Group Join now Follow Follow Follow Follow About MaWSIG Meet the committee Blog Blogs (Pre-2024) Connect Events Past events The Writer’s Resource Members’ area (IATEFL) 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. What are you waiting for? Join now 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 t ime Find out more Upcoming events A journey through time: redesigning materials for the 21st century Monday 25 March, 14:30-15:30 UK t ime ( check the time in your time zone ) Find out more Latest posts Writing digital ELT materials Sep 4, 2023 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... Decolonising ELT materials: Challenging Western supremacy and processes of othering, using the example of Africa Jul 26, 2023 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... Moving away from a one-size-fits-all approach when using prescribed ELT materials Jul 20, 2023 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... Immersive learning experience design for language learning in virtual reality Jul 11, 2023 With an increasing interest in virtual reality for education and the developments around the metaverse, Nergiz Kern is often asked by publishing and teaching professionals what makes good learning experiences in virtual reality (VR) and how to write lesson plans for... I am not a taboo: LGBTQIA+ in the ELT classroom May 25, 2023 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... The MaWSIG PCE Warm-up Webinars: Self-publishing Apr 4, 2023 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... Conference countdown: What do you do to get conference-ready? Mar 2, 2023 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... MaWSIG meets TESOL Spain: The what, the why and the how of writing a teacher’s book Feb 23, 2023 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... MaWSIG Showcase 2022: What I talk about when I talk about coursebooks Feb 22, 2023 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. https://youtu.be/Iox-2dnzIj4 Julie Norton is... Women in coursebooks now and then: how representation has changed (MaWSIG Showcase day 2022) Oct 28, 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... MaWSIG PCE 2022: What does a picture researcher do, and how has picture research changed over the last 15 years? Sep 6, 2022 In the second post in our series Looking back at the MaWSIG PCE, Belfast 2022, Sharon McTeir shares a summary of her presentation. In my talk at the MaWSIG PCE in Belfast this year, I talked about the following aspects of my... MaWSIG PCE 2022: Bridging a 30-year gap in materials writing Jun 27, 2022 In our first post in the series Looking back at the MaWSIG PCE, Belfast 2022, Sue Kay writes about her presentation in which she shared an insightful account of her thoughts and experiences as she prepares to update and self-publish materials that she originally wrote... Joining the MaWSIG Committee Mar 28, 2022 In this series of three posts, we ask our new committee members to share their thoughts about why they chose to join the MaWSIG committee. The second post comes in the form of an interview with Heather Buchanan, Joint Events Coordinator (and soon-to-be MaWSIG... Joining the MaWSIG Committee Mar 28, 2022 In this series of three posts, we ask our new committee members to share their thoughts about why they chose to join the MaWSIG committee. The first post comes from Sandy Millin, Deputy Tech Coordinator. I’ve been a member of MaWSIG on and off since it first started... Self-publishing in ELT: ensuring quality through the editorial process Dec 16, 2021 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... MaWSIG PCE: Bring your ideas to life using mood boards – Colin Morton Nov 1, 2021 This is the fifth of our summaries from the IATEFL MaWSIG Pre-Conference Event, which was held online on Friday, 18 June 2021. In his talk, Colin Morton looked at a key aspect of ELT publishing which is not often discussed: the role of mood boards in... MaWSIG PCE: 50 ways to avoid gap-fill fatigue Oct 26, 2021 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... MaWSIG PCE: Strategies to survive overwhelm Sep 17, 2021 This is the third of our summaries from the IATEFL MaWSIG Pre-Conference Event, which was held online on Friday, 18 June 2021. In her talk, Rachael Roberts gave us some tips to avoid and deal with overwhelm – that feeling you can get when you’ve taken on too much.... MaWSIG PCE: Scope and sequence design – A top-down or grassroots approach? Aug 4, 2021 This is the second of our summaries from the MaWSIG IATEFL Pre-Conference Event, which was held online on Friday, 18 June 2021. In her talk, Frances Amrani weighed up the pros and cons of a top-down versus a grassroots approach to scope and sequence design. This... MaWSIG PCE: Covert syllabuses Jul 27, 2021 On Friday, 18 June...