About Hajba László

László Hajba is a freelance teacher and materials writer based in Budapest, Hungary. Besides being a teacher of English and Hungarian as a foreign language he is also interested in using ICT, video games and other digital technologies in education, particularly tablets and smartphones.

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Can global issues provide authenticity and context in English teaching? (Ken Wilson)

The use of English by non-native speakers to highlight global issues is increasing, often involving the clever use of social media. Should English teachers focus more on this wider use of English and pay less attention to native speaker socio-cultural aspects of the language? This talk looked at the arguments for and against and provided […]

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Home & Shelter Issues Month 2014

OCTOBER 2014 is HOME & SHELTER ISSUES MONTH with the GI SIG! Where do you come from? Why did you come here? Can you describe your house? What is your family like? Some of the questions many of us use as staples in our English classes. And for many of our students the answers are […]

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Addressing the issues together (Margit Szesztay and Xiaobing Wang)

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StarPower – a critical simulation (Lindsay Clandfield)

Starpower – a trading simulation game Since its creation in 1969, StarPower has been one of the most popular trading simulation games in education. By conservative estimates, three million people have played it. It provokes participants to rethink their assumptions about the use and abuse of power and creates a memorable impression. In this session […]

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Third World Farmer and other critical video games (Kyle Mawer)

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From Role Play to Real Action (Dr Luke Prodromou)

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IATEFL Harrogate Conference 2014

GISIG event discussions PCE – April 1 From Role Play to Real Action (Dr Luke Prodromou) Third World Farmer and other critical video games (Kyle Mawer) StarPower – a critical simulation (Lindsay Clandfield) Addressing the issues together (Margit Szesztay and Xiaobing Wang) GISIG track day – April 4 Can global issues provide authenticity and context […]

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MacDonald Duck Re-Visited: Implications for Culture, Society and Education

This article written by the founding father of our SIG puts ELT today into wider social, economic, political perspectives.  It reminds me that my main aim as an educator is to encourage a critical, non-conformist stance in my students.  Encourage them to shake off social conditioning, see the world around them with fresh eyes, question […]

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Lesson Plan for two texts on discrimination

The following two exercises are samples from the teaching work of Dr. Esther Lucas (1918-2011), one of the founding members of IATEFL GISIG. Esther was also a member of the Global Issues SIG Committee and Newsletter Editor for the Newsletters No. 14 – 19. The exercise comes from issue No. 16. It is a prime […]

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Making Global Issues Local

The following article describes a lovely way to make grand sounding concepts easy and understandable for everybody. It takes three examples from widely distributed text books for teaching English and breaks them down to the exercise level. This is done in such a way that even the most unwilling learner is made aware of the […]

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