All entries for April 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.

Richard Smith : 18 Apr 2024 19:30 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Recent donations relating to Iraq (1955) and Bangladesh (1966)

Some interesting donations received into the ELT Archive the last few days - two pamphlets with prescriptions for English teaching in Iraq from 1955, from Martin Wedell, and the report of a 1966 conference on ELT in Bangladesh, received from Henry Widdowson. This kind of donation of rare material is very welcome. Thanks Martin and Henry - you are now enrolled in our list of donors here!: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/research/collections/elt_archive/!

Richard Smith : 17 Apr 2024 12:34 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem