The Shortlist:
THE 2013 ENGLISH LANGUAGE AWARDS
Celebrating innovation and good practice in English
language teaching and learning.
The English-Speaking Union is pleased to announce the
shortlists for this year’s English Language Awards.
ESU PRESIDENT’S AWARD
The ESU President’s Award celebrates
and encourages the widespread use of
technology in the teaching and learning
of English. It was initiated in 2003 at the
request of the then President of the ESU
(1957-2011), HRH The Duke of Edinburgh,
and our new President, HRH The Princess
Royal, continues to support the Award today.
The Shortlist:
Clicker Sentences
By Crick Software Ltd.
IELTS Skills
By Macmillan Education
Cool Speech: Hot Listening,
Cool Pronunciation
By Speech in Action and Firsty Group
Oxford Learner’s Bookshelf
By Oxford University Press
Voxy: Your Life in English
By Voxy Inc.
HRH THE DUKE OF
EDINBURGH ENGLISH
LANGUAGE BOOK AWARDS
Since 1971, these awards have recognised
the best book published each year in the
field of English language teaching and
learning. The 2013 shortlist includes a
number of very different resources to aid
students and teachers alike, across the
worlds of academia, business, early-years
learning and ESP.
The Shortlist:
Collins English For Life: Listening A2
By Chris Flint and Jamie Flockhart
(Collins, Harper Collins Publishers)
Collins Key Business Skills
By Barry Tomalin
(Collins, Harper Collins Publishers)
English For Football
By Alan Redmond and Sean Warren
(Oxford University Press)
Hooray! Let’s Play!
By Herbert Putcha and
Gunther Gerngross
(Helbling Languages)
Language Learning with Technology
By Graham Stanley
(Cambridge University Press)
Oxford EAP: A Course in English
for Academic Purposes (B1+)
By Edward De Chazal and Louis Rogers
(Oxford University Press)
Phonology for Listening:
Teaching the Stream of Speech
There was “a very high standard
of entries this year and it was
particularly encouraging to see
entries from smaller publishers.”
John Walsh, Managing Director,
The Bournemouth English Book Centre
and Book Awards judge.
By Richard Cauldwell
(Speech in Action)
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