Best Tertiary (Wholly Australian) Teaching and Learning Resource: Highly commended

The Educational Publishing Awards, organised by the Australian Publishers' Association were held last night. The final book category awarded on the night was Best Tertiary (Wholly Australian) Teaching and Learning Resource. The winner was Business Law 9th Edition by Andy Gibson and Douglas Fraser (Pearson). Highly commended was Introduction to Speech, Language and Literacy edited by myself and Jane McCormack (Oxford University Press)! We didn't even know we had been entered or shortlisted! We are thrilled that our work with our chapter authors and editors from OUP has been acknowledged in this way.

Here is the description of the awards from the Educational Publishing Awards website:

The prestigious annual Educational Publishing Awards reward excellence and innovation in the industry. The event offers colleagues and industry professionals the opportunity to network and celebrate achievements. Awards are judged by a panel of peers, and each year teachers and booksellers vote for the coveted Publisher of the Year award. Awards will be presented in the Primary, Secondary, TAFE & Vocational and Tertiary Education categories as well as to the Primary and Secondary Publisher of the Year. ​

The shortlisted publications are here. The winning books are listed here.
Blog posts about our book are compiled here.
The Oxford University Press blog post about the development of our book (written by Jane McCormack) is here.

Publication of Introduction to Speech, Language and Literacy

This week I received the first published version of Introduction to Speech, Language and Literacy. Oxford University Press had wrapped it in ribbon, and Katie Ridsdale had written a lovely card to accompany the book. It has been wonderful to work with OUP and their attention to detail, even at this final stage of publication, is typical of the great working relationship we have had during the entire production process. The book was publicized at the Early Start Conference in Wollongong last week, and it is hoped that it may be useful to educators, linguists and speech pathologists.

OUP at the Early Start Conference, Wollongong

The stars of the book's case study videos enjoyed seeing themselves in print

Introduction to Speech, Language, and Literacy - Oxford University Press

Today Jane McCormack and I submitted the final version of Introduction to Speech, Language, and Literacy to Oxford University Press - ready for publication. Here is the chapter line-up:

Chapter 1: What is speech, language, and literacy?

Sharynne McLeod and Jane McCormack

Chapter 2: Sociolinguistic environments of speech, language, and literacy

Catherine Easton and Jane McCormack

Chapter 3: Speech: Phonetics

 Felicity Cox and Sharynne McLeod

Chapter 4: Speech: Phonology

Sarah Masso and Elise Baker

Chapter 5: Language: Semantics

Natalie Munro and Karla McGregor

Chapter 6: Language: Morphology

Katherine Demuth, Kelly Miles, Sithembinkosi Dube, and Ekaterina Tomas

Chapter 7: Language: Syntax

Rosalind Thornton

Chapter 8: Language: Discourse and pragmatics

Alison Ferguson and Elizabeth Spencer

Chapter 9: Literacy: Reading

Sarah H. McDonagh

Chapter 10: Literacy: Writing

Noella M. Mackenzie and Janet Scull

Chapter 11: Cognitive basis for speech, language, and literacy

Karen Smith-Lock and Lyndsey Nickels

Chapter 12: Neurobiological basis for speech, language, and literacy

Angela Morgan and Frédérique J. Liégeois

Chapter 13: Interaction between speech, language, and literacy

Suze Leitão

Professor Alison Ferguson (chapter 8) and Sharynne
discussing the submission of the book