Before taking a Christmas break, I thought I’d suggest five links on the topic of ELT writing and writers to round of this series of posts on Writing for ELT for 2012. 1 ELteacher2writer has lots of interesting resources on… Read More ›
Writing for ELT 
Writing to personalise and localise
Course books are usually written for students grouped by age and level. These students can be based in any number of different countries. Howeverm teachers nterviewed increasingly request material which they can relate to their particular students. As a result,… Read More ›
What mutilating an ELT course book can teach a writer
Recently I observed a teacher in class who was going to be piloting some material I’d written. The lesson was fascinating. She’d copied and cut up parts of the workbook, written out sentences from the course book on pieces of… Read More ›
Heads up and heads down
While co-writing the course book ‘Life’ I had the chance to observe and talk to teachers who were involved in piloting the materials. One day I was asking a teacher about how she used course books at the beginning of… Read More ›
Roles of a course book
There is a lot written about the role of the teacher in ELT and the role of the learner. We use words like ‘facilitator’ and ‘coach’ to describe the teacher, and ‘risk-taker’ and ‘co-worker’ are among many words we could… Read More ›
An ELT writer’s paradigm
When I write materials for ELT I’m very conscious of – not surprisingly – how materials interrelate with the teacher and the learner. At first I have a mental image of how the material will be used by the learners… Read More ›
Launch of ‘Life’ at Natural History Museum
Recently, the new course series I’ve been working on for National Geographic Learning was launched in the Earth Galleries of the Natural History Museuam, London. It was a great venue. You can now watch the talks which include me and Paul… Read More ›
