MaWSIG meets GI SIG, 25 January 2020, 1.30 pm UTC Making good materials for everyone, everywhere, no matter how much money they have Linda Ruas and Margarita Kosior Both Linda and Margarita have been involved in projects teaching English learners and training teachers or making materials for use in areas with limited resources, be it […]
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GISIG is now a ‘Friend of EVE’
EVE stands for Equal Voices in ELT. It is an organisation created to recognise both gender and highly proficient speaker parity in keynotes and plenaries in ELT conferences and events worldwide. EVE website: https://evecalendar.wordpress.com EVE Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/eveELT/ EVE on Twitter: https://twitter.com/eve_elt
GISIG at the IATEFL Hungary conference 2017
GISIG co-coordinator Linda Ruas’ plenary
Esther Lucas Scholarship for the 2018 IATEFL conference
The scholarship is named in memory of one of the founders of the Global Issues Special Interest Group and aims to assist a teacher to attend the 52nd IATEFL conference in Brighton in 2018. It is not necessary to be a member of IATEFL to apply for this scholarship. The award consists of: registration for […]
Special Days Competition winners
We would like to congratulate our 4 winners of our most recent competition: Cristina Oliveira Rita Diveki Aleks Palanac Mandana Arfa Kaboodvan They all created excellent lessons which will be added to our GISIG Special Days Calendar, and have each won a free place at our PCE in Brighton in April. We really look forward […]
GISIG at the APPI Conference in Lisbon
We’re happy to report that some of our committee members will be present at the 2017 APPI Conference in Lisbon to promote Global Issues!
GISIG WEBINAR on 19th February, 2017
Webinar Resources Music and Mime, Rhythm and Rhyme by Charles Goodger (more…)
War & Peace Issues Month: How You Can Participate – SHARE HERE!
How you can participate October 2015 is IATEFL Global Issues SIG special event – War & Peace Issues Month! For the third year in a row, we are holding a month-long online event. This is an asynchronous event, developed with the aim of sharing ideas about teaching English with a conscience, this year through the […]
Food Issues month – Week 2 summary!
by Angelina. Explore more infographics like this one on the web’s largest information design community – Visually. This graph was shared on the Food Issues Facebook page by the teacher Milada Krajewska. Food month – Week 2 Summary Well we have just finished our second week of Food Month, and things are still coming in! […]
Food and Water
FOOD AND WATER —Food and industrially-driven consumerism. Many focus points, including advertising, now so extreme on TV, same products marketed globally. –Food adverts on TV. Have students collect and analyze, in particular the use of imagery. Much of their message is pure suggestion, or identification with a life style, or in the case of ‘Boss’ ice […]
