I am writing on behalf of the Ben Warren-International House Trust Prize to inform you that your book ‘Phonology for Listening’ has been placed on the shortlist for the prize. The full shortlist is as follows:

• Richard Cauldwell Phonology for Listening (Speech in Action)
• Gavin Dudeney, Nicky Hockly & Mark Pegrum Digital Literacies (Pearson / Routledge)
• Joan Kang Shin & JoAnn Crandall Teaching Young Learners English; from theory to practice (National Geographic Learning / Heinle Cengage Learning)
• Graham Stanley Language Learning with Technology (Cambridge University Press)

The winner will be announced this Saturday morning at the International House conference in Barcelona.

With congratulations and best wishes

Philip Kerr

Ying moments is a term I use in Phonology for Listening to refer to moments in spontaneous speech when words are squeezed into new and unfamiliar soundshapes which are likely to be a source of decoding problems for learners of English. The term is derived from another that I use in the same book - Ying’s dilemma. Ying’s dilemma is when a learner-listener, who believes that they know a word, cannot catch (decode and understand) that same word when it occurs in speech. Ying’s dilemma is illustrated here. I am tweeting about such moments #yingmoment.