Including marginalized or diverse content, promoting inclusiveness, presenting women, different cultures and ethnicities, and the LGBTQIA community are all failings in ELT mainstream content, argues Ben Goldstein in this review of Ready to Run’s resource filmed with trans vlogger Wenzile from South Africa
Read MoreWhen it comes to environmentalism and the climate crisis, the ELT industry is frankly lagging. It could be the nature of the industry: courses and books tend to take well over a year to create. Perhaps it’s for fear of upsetting a particular demographic which isn’t yet “ready” to talk about the damaging effect humans are having on the planet.
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DLA has prepared a curation of Ready to Run videos that can be used to support Social Emotional Learning in ELT. It’s an area we attach a lot of importance to. In particular our Vloggers series, videos created by real life YouTubers, covers a range of SEL issues in a fresh and authentic way that will connect with young people.
“Better representation of people with disabilities would be a relatively small step in the direction of a more inclusive approach to education” writes teacher trainer and award-winning writer of materials for English language learners and teachers, Philip Kerr.
In his article he considers different approaches to the representation of disability in materials and classroom practice.
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