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April 18, 2024

HERstory of ELT – new project

Writing about web page https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/research/collections/elt_archive/halloffame/women/

A group provisionally called 'Women in ELT History' (WELTH) held its first meeting at the IATEFL conference in Brighton on 17th April. We agreed to meet monthly online from now on to carry out research into the history of women in TEFL, beginning with a focus on oral history of recent times (1980s-1990s). Group members are Julie Norton, Richard Smith, Alessia Cogo, Miriam Schwiening, Carol Waites (all pictured, L to R below), Heather Buchanan, Sandy Millin, Xi Li (not pictured). This builds on a suggestion for collaboration with Warwick ELT Archive at last year's IATEFL conference - download ppt here. We hope to share our findings, in particular about the c. 1985–c. 1995 'Women in TEFL' / 'Women in EFL Materials' initiative at next year's IATEFL conference in Edinburgh. Some insights into the history of women in EFL are already on this web-page.

1st meeting of WELTH - photo