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Jayne Wildman has been involved in ELT for 30 years. She first started teaching children and teenagers in 1988. After teaching in Spain, Italy and the UK, Jayne spent several years in Oxford as an editor, before she began authoring her own books. Her first book was published in 2002, and since then she has […]
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Whether you’ve been working from home for years, or you’ve just started working remotely due to the Covid-19 pandemic, being away from an office and co-workers comes with a whole set of challenges. I’ve asked some of my publishing colleagues for their top working from home tips and they’ve come back with some great advice.
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Damian Williams is an author, writer and teacher trainer based in the UK. He has worked in Russia, Indonesia, Italy, Spain, UK, Argentina and Brazil. He has written several major books for Pearson and works as a Cambridge DELTA tutor and examiner. His current interests lie in exploiting the urban linguistic landscape as a language
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Katherine has worked in ELT for more than 30 years. She has published for a range of contexts and publishers. She writes blog posts and lesson plans for British Council Teaching English, and a monthly blog post for National Geographic Learning’s ‘In focus’ blog. Katherine is on the committee of IATEFL’s MaWSIG (Materials Writers Special
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Adrianna Krajewska is an ESL teacher and ELT author from Poland. She has written materials for Oxford University Press and local publishing houses. She is the author of numerous national language competitions, Secondary School test books, teachers’ guides and articles for education magazines in Poland. When did you first know that you wanted to be
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I know authors who started writing for publishers without any prior knowledge of the ELT publishing process. They have become successful writers and have written flagship courses. But those writers started out years ago, when schedules were generous and there was time to train new talent. Sadly, those days are long gone. Don’t get me
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When I look for new writing talent among teachers, I like to see what they’ve been creating for their own students and other teachers. These days, this is really easy as most teachers who make their own materials share them in teachers’ groups, on their websites or fan pages. I’ve seen plenty of self-made content,
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LinkedIn has this odd feature called ‘People Also Viewed.’ These people are selected based on common key words used in profiles, connections, skills, endorsements, past jobs, etc., so essentially, they’re your competitors. Do you really want a potential client to leave your profile and go check out your competition? Nah, I didn’t think so. Here’s
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Here’s an infographic summarizing my advice on ways to get noticed by an ELT publisher (for aspiring writers).
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A few weeks ago, an English teacher reached out to me on LinkedIn asking for writing work. I didn’t know this person, so I checked their profile, but it was empty. Google didn’t provide any information either. I asked them why they thought I should give them a job and they said, ‘Because I want
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