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The following shows the contents of a selection of GISIG Newsletters which you can receive by joining the group. If you are a member, mail Nik Peachey the web manager for access to online versions of most of our past publications.

 

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Contents of GISIG Newsletter No. 1 - July 95
   
 

  • Global Issues SIG: Born April 1995
    Steve Flinders

  • GISIG News and Views
    Maria Biharine Partos

  • Integrating Global Education into Language Teaching
    Kip A. Cates

  • Discussing Global Issues as a Classroom Activity
    Tatiana E. Sallier

  • Global Issues and the Raising of Consciousness
    Simon Sweeney

  • Article Review
    Patrick Burke

  • On Track to Century 21: Destination for the 90s
    H. Douglas Brown

  • Linking the classroom to the World: The Environment and EFL
    Susan Stempleski

 

 Contents of GISIG Newsletter No. 2 - April 96
   
 

  • Editorial - Maria Biharine Partos

  • What are global issues? What is the purpose of a global issues SIG?
    Simon Sweeney, College of Ripon & York St. John, York, UK

  • Ethical language teaching: towards a global code of ethics for English Language Teaching
    Diana Hicks, co-author, "The Cambridge Secondary English Course"

  • Think globally, act locally
    Christopher Etchells, The English Country School

  • Communication through debate
    Qun Wang, Qingdao University, China

  • Intercultural learning: a clash of values?
    Felicity Macdonald-Smith, Eurocentres, Cambridge

  • Global education in language teaching
    Judith Roads

  • Human rights education - it starts with the language we teach
    Lisa Harshbarger, EFL Fellow Liaison, Slovenia

  • Tools of understanding; global education and language learning
    Miriam Moscovitch Steiner, Manchester Metropolitan University

  • Can global issues be taught to young learners?
    Paul Woods, The British Council

  • Using the Seville statement as content-rich language learning
    Christopher E. Renner, University of Naples

  • Global Education Summer School in York, England
    Margot Brown, College of Ripon & York St. John, York.

  • Dictionaries and language sensitivity
    Bill Mascull, author of "Key Words in the Media".

 

 Contents of GISIG Newsletter No. 3 - Spring 97
   
 

  • Editorial - Maria Biharine Partos

  • Discovering Europe Together
    Felicity Macdonald Smith, Eurocentre Cambridge

  • Global Issues and Project Work: Improving Real Communication in the Classroom
    Mariza Ferrari, Sociede Brasiliera de Culturas Ingles

  • From Broiler to Fried Chicken
    Gordon Dobson, Berlin, Germany

  • An Open Letter
    Alan Maley, National Univeristy of Singapore

  • The Empire of McDonald Duck
    Alan Maley, National University of Singapore

  • English Naturally
    Christopher Etchells, The English Country School

  • Why all GISIG members should use the Internet-
    Christopher Etchells, The English Country School

 

 Contents of GISIG Newsletter No. 4 - Summer 97
   
 

  • Editorial - Maria Biharine Partos

  • Report on GISIG Open Forum news
    Felicity Macdonald-Smith, Eurocentres

  • Cross-Cultural Misunderstanding: The Importance of Pragamatics
    Farid Aitsiselmi, University of Bradford

  • Using Students' L1: Does it affect task performance? or The End of the Monolingual Classroom
    Anthony Calderbank, American Univeristy in Cairo, Egypt

  • The Changing Role of English in Southeast Asia
    Dr. Gary M. Jones, University Brunei Darussalam, Brunei

  • Global Issues & Project Work: Improving Real Communication in the Classroom
    Mariza Ferrari, Cultura Inglesa S.Paolo Brasil

  • Global Issues in the EFL Classroom
    David Peaty, Japan

  • Book Review: 'Issues for the 90s'
    Coleen Degnan-Veness, Broomham School, nr. Hastings

  • News from the Net
    Christopher Etchells, The English Country School

  • Global Updates: Summer Institute
    Irma Ghosn, Lebanese Univeristy, Byblos

  • ELT News and Views IRC on-line Chat Group
    Martin Eayrs

 

 Contents of GISIG Newsletter No. 5 - Summer 98
   
 

  • Editorial

  • From the Coordinator

  • Power, communication and the construction of intercultural understanding
    Ralph Ings Bannell

  • Cross-cultural understanding and foreign language teaching
    Nelson Mitrano-Neto

  • Pronunciation from three ideological standpoints
    William Redmont

  • From Coca-Cola to communication
    Luke Prodromou

  • Thoughts on ESL in the "new" South Africa
    Ian Butler

 

 Contents of GISIG Newsletter No. 7 - Spring 99
   
 
  • Editorial

  • Global Issues at the IATEFL Conference in Edinburgh

  • Reports on events:

    International Summer Academy for Teachers: Peace and Global Issues in the Language Class
    Christopher E. Renner

    British Council/IATEFL SIG Symposium
    Christopher Etchells

  • The Teaching of Languages and Peace
    Betsy Hansen

  • Considering Controversial Issues in the Classroom and Beyond
    Dianne L. Smith, Dr. Lee Makela, and Heidi M. Makela

  • Indigenous Peoples - Alive and well in your classroom
    Dorothy Dufour

  • Learning language, learning culture: experiences of in-country training as a VSO volunteer in the Lao PDR Richard Clark

  • Book Review: Cause to Communicate
    Ian Kidd

  • Anti-Slavery International
    Kirsty Abraham

  • News from the Net

 

 Contents of GISIG Newsletter No. 8 - Summer 99
   
 
  • From the Coordinator

  • Pre-Conference events:

    Like a fish needs a bicycle: Towards a more appropriate methodology in gloabal English Language education
    Diana Hicks

    Caliban, Corpora and Power in the Classroom
    Luke Prodromou

    Ways and means of bringing the world into the EFL classroom
    Felicity Macdonald-Smith

  • SIG Track

  • The wildest dreams of Kew: English in Nepal
    Alan C./ McLean

  • Teaching English for World Citizenship: Key Content Areas
    Kip A. Cates

  • Priorities, practicalities, problems and possibilities of teaching English in China
    Jo Rhodes Jiao & Chris Pontin

  • Adoption of innovations: the formulation of language policy in Argentina in the contest of educational reform
    Rosalyn Hurst

  • Promoting cultural awareness through language learning
    Eduardo Garbey Savigne & Isora Enrquez O'Farill

  • Global Twins
    Kay Bruce

  • News from the Net
    Christopher Etchells

  • GISIG or GESIG: should the SIG change its name?

  • Language Across the Curriculum Network
    Stuart Simpson

 

 

 Contents of GISIG Newsletter No. 16 - Summer 05
   
 
  • Editorial
    Esther Lucas

  • Letter from the GISIG Coordinators
    Dominic McCabe and Graham Hall

  • Letter from the Acting Global issues SIG Coordinator
    J. Wolfgang Ridder

  • Message from the GISIG Committee
    The Committee

  • Where theory comes from and what can happen to it. ‘BANA’ Influence via Applied Linguistics
    Dick Allwright

  • A Teaching Method for Promoting Human Rights: Cooperative Learning
    George Jacobs

  • Teaching Global Unity Through Proverbs, Metaphors, and Storytelling
    Vivian Chu

  • ELT in Greece – For Women Only?
    Estelle Angelinas

  • Promoting Global Issues
    Valerie Jakar

  • The Hedgehog and the Fox. Approaches to English for Peacekeeping
    Paul Woods

  • World Englishes, Discussion Fielded by NickyHockly
    Dominic McCabe

  • Women and Teaching, Discussion
    Wendy Arnold

  • With Friends Like These
    Neil McBeath

  • Research Review - Towards a Global Community: Education for Tomorrow, a Transnational Research
    Nick Baikaloff

  • Life Link
    Esther Lucas

 

 
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