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ELTons 2010: The UK Award for Innovation
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The 2010 awards were offered to outstanding new language learning resources which use innovative ideas to help learners and teachers of English to achieve their goals.
For more details, please see British Council website.
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Teaching with Bear Pack (Book, DVD and Bear puppet)
ISBN: 9780194433037 Price: ¥9,000 (incl.tax)
Supported by visual examples on the accompanying DVD, this resource pack is essential in expanding the teaching techniques and building confidence of both new and experienced teachers of children. Also, it shows teachers how to bring a puppet and the young learners' English classroom to life.
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The Ben Warren International House Trust Prize 2009
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The Ben Warren-International House Trust Prize is awarded on an annual basis to the author or authors of the most outstanding work in the field of language teacher education. Click here for more information about The Ben Warren-International House Trust.
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Oxford Applied Linguistics Psychology of Second Language Acquisition
ISBN: 9780194421973 Price: ¥8,520 (incl.tax)
The Psychology of Second Language Acquisition offers a systematic and accessible overview of the main psychological areas and theories allowing the reader to keep abreast of the ongoing paradigm shift. Readers will find succinct and up-to-date descriptions of a wide range of psycholinguistic and neuropsychological topics such as language and the brain; neuroimaging and other research methods in psycholinguistics and brain research; non-nativist approaches to language acquisition; explicit/implicit learning and memory, procedural/declarative knowledge, and the automatization of language skills; learner characteristics, age effects, and the critical period hypothesis; and the psychological basis of language learning in educational contexts.
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2009 Language Learner Literature Awards
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This award is given by Extensive Reading Foundation (ERF) to the books which support and promote extensive reading in language education. For more details, please see ERF website.
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Oxford Bookworms World Stories 4 Land of my Childhood : Stories from South Asia
Retold by Clare West
ISBN: 9780194792356 Price: ¥790 (incl.tax)
My brother preferred being with mother and me. He used to help us prepare vegetables in the kitchen or make the bread. But what he liked best was listening to my mother's stories. But those childhood days are long gone, and now a great distance divides sister and brother, children and mother --.
The stories in this volume of World Stories come from India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.
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The Duke of Edinburgh ESU English Language Book Award 2008
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The Duke of Edinburgh ESU English-Speaking Union English Language Book Award is given to 'the best book published each year in the field of English language teaching'. The Oxford Student's Dictionary, published in September 2007 for learners using English to study other subjects, was the 2008 joint winner with Always On, published by OUP New York.
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ELT08 Innovation Awards
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Bookworms Club : Stories for Reading Circles is a series of graded reading material for small student-centered reading and discussion groups, who meet in the classroom to talk about stories. For further information on this award, please see the British Council website.
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2008 Language Learner Literature Awards
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This award is given by Extensive Reading Foundation (ERF) to the books which support and promote extensive reading in language education. For more details, please see ERF website.
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Classic Tales Beginner 1 Princess and the Pea
Retold by Clare West
ISBN: 9780194225526 Price: ¥620 (incl.tax)
Prince Harold is searching for a princess. A real princess. The King and Queen try hard to find him one, but Prince Harold doesn't like any of the princesses he meets. Then one stormy night, a beautiful girl comes to the castle. But is she a real princess? The Queen wants to find out. So she puts a pea under the girl's mattresses before she goes to bed. Can the girl feel the pea and show she is a real princess?
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2007 Language Learner Literature Awards
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This award is given by Extensive Reading Foundation (ERF) to the books which support and promote extensive reading in language education. For more details, please see ERF website.
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Oxford Bookworms Library 3: Rabbit-Proof Fence
Doris Pilkington Garimara
ISBN: 9780194791441 Price: ¥680 (incl.tax)
Fourteen-year-old Molly and her cousins Daisy and Gracie were Aborigines. In 1931 they were taken away from their families and sent to a camp to be trained as good 'white' Australians. They were told to forget their mothers, their language, their home. But Molly would not forget. She and her cousins escaped and walked home to Jigalong, 1600 kilometres away, following the rabbit-proof fence as their guide across the desert.
Rabbit-Proof Fence is the true story of that walk, told by Molly's daughter, Doris. It is also a prize-winning film.
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Oxford Bookworms Library 5: The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
ISBN: 9780194792165 Price: ¥790 (incl.tax)
Into the drawing-rooms of New York society in the 1870s comes the beautiful Countess Ellen Olenska, surrounded by shocked whispers about her marriage to a rich Polish Count. A woman who leaves her husband can never be accepted in polite society.@Newland Archer is engaged to young May Welland, but the charts of the Countess are too great to resist. Before long he sees that a terrible decision lies ahead of him - to choose a marriage approved by society, or the love of a woman whom society will never accept.
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2006 Language Learner Literature Awards
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This award is given by Extensive Reading Foundation (ERF) to the books which support and promote extensive reading in language education. For more details, please see ERF website.
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Oxford Bookworms Library 1: Ned Kelly : A True Story
Christine Lindop
ISBN: 9780194789127 Price: ¥680 (incl.tax)
When he was a boy, he was poor and hungry. When he was a young man, he was still poor and hungry. He learnt how to steal horses, he learnt how to fight, he learnt how to live - outside the law. Australia in the 1870s was a hard, wild place. Rich people had land, poor people didn't. So the rich got richer, and the poor stayed poor.
Some say Ned Kelly was a bad man. Some say he was a good man but the law was bad. This is the true story of Australia's most famous outlaw.
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2005 Language Learner Literature Awards
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This award is given by Extensive Reading Foundation (ERF) to the books which support and promote extensive reading in language education. For more details, please see ERF website.
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Oxford Bookworms Library 2: Love Among the Haystacks
D. H. Lawrence
ISBN: 9780194790802 Price: ¥680 (incl.tax)
It is hay-making time on the Wookey farm. Two brothers are building the haystack, but thinking about other things _Eabout young women, and love. There are angry words, and then a fight between the brothers. But the work goes on, visitors come and go, and the long hot summer day slowly turns to evening.
Then the sun goes down, covering the world with a carpet of darkness. From the hedges around the hayfield comes the rich, sweet smell of wild flowers, and the hay will make a fine, soft bed...
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