To Find Cultural Awareness
by Laura Libéria Fabbrini SantosGISIG Newsletter No. 172005 The following article explains a wonderful exercise in learning about “The Foreign, the Unknown or the Strange”. Understanding things,...
View ArticleTeaching against prejudice
GISIG Newsletter No. 152002 The following Bibliography and attached exercises represent one of GISIG’s core aspects of teaching: making learners aware of how easy it is to stereotype and cast out...
View ArticleELT in A Globalized World
by Ricardo SampedroGISIG Newsletter No. 192006 The author demonstrates how to localise global themes in the English coursebook with two detailed examples, so that teachers can engage students more in...
View ArticleMaking Global Issues Local
by Adrian TennantGISIG Newsletter No. 182005 The following article describes a lovely way to make grand sounding concepts easy and understandable for everybody. It takes three examples from widely...
View ArticleLesson Plan for two texts on discrimination
by Esther LucasGISIG Newsletter No. 16 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...
View ArticleMacDonald Duck Re-Visited: Implications for Culture, Society and Education
by Alan MaleyGISIG Newsletter No. 172005 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...
View ArticleWork and Stress Lesson Plan
by Dana RadlerGISIG Newsletter No. 262011 Dana Radler, Member of the GISIG Committee, who did the below given exercise herself in her classes writes as a short introductory note about it: This...
View ArticleGaza in the Critical EFL Classroom: Opening Eyes, Hearts and Minds
The full article is available to our members in our 2015 summer Newsletter. References Abu Salama, Tamam. (2015). Gaza family to daughter studying abroad, ‘We do miss you Baba, but don’t come’....
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