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Category Archives: ELT publishing
EOT against OUP
Regular interviewee (!) Jason West of English Out There is launching an online campaign against Oxford University Press. Here is the promised interview in which he explains how and why: What exactly is your complaint against OUP? Without using legal terminology the … Continue reading
Pearson to lose control of Penguin?
Nobody has quite written about it that way, but that seems to be the upshot of Bertlesmann taking a 53 percent share of the company that will be formed by the merger of Random House and Penguin. I can’t imagine … Continue reading
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A review of Lifestyle Pre-Intermediate by Vicki Hollett and Norman Whitby
A majorly edited version of this has just been published in Modern English Teacher magazine. If you think you can do better or just want some free books, here’s how to review for TEFL.net. Lifestyle is a new textbook series designed … Continue reading
Posted in Business English and ESP, ELT publishing
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CUP CEO predicts more competition between schools and publishers
He also thinks the transition to digital in ELT classrooms will be gradual and that the teaching of Chinese will have to develop separately to that of ELT: CEO of Cambridge University Press at the London Book Fair Links to … Continue reading
Posted in Cambridge University Press, ELT publishing
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OUP ELT recruiting contributors
Oxford ELT are asking for a 60-minute Pre-Int text-based lesson plan and your CV, but don’t get too excited because it’s for reviewers and piloters as well as writers (although actually those first two are pretty interesting too): Oxford University … Continue reading
Top tips for getting involved in ELT publishing
You could say I’m a kind of expert on this topic, because the way I messed up my promising start in ELT publishing is a perfect warning story to anyone else who is taking their first steps. It seems I’m … Continue reading
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The one thing everyone buying young learner coursebooks should know
I was reminded of this while looking through the sheer number in the catalogues for this year and while flicking through some recent OUP examples: Most YL textbooks are designed to precisely match the criteria of some specific school board or … Continue reading
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New Cambridge English titles in 2012
Noticeable trends: – Many titles by old reliable writers – An amazing number of titles by a few of those people, e.g. Herbert Puchta is somehow responsible for 5 new titles in one year, two of which are series of … Continue reading
Posted in Cambridge University Press
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Random facts about Murphy's Grammar in Use
From a PR piece on Cambridge’s recent award of an honorary MA to Raymond Murphy, presumably for single-handedly keeping CUP afloat: “If our estimates of the size of the second-hand and photocopying markets are reasonably accurate, there is probably a … Continue reading
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Pearson buys 450-branch test preparation school chain in China
They already own the China-based bits of the Wall Street English conversation school chain, so they just keep getting bigger. The article in the FT doesn’t speculate on it (because they are also owned by Pearson??), but I wonder whether … Continue reading
Posted in EFL exams, Pearson Longman, Teaching English in China
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