Overview

ABAX is an independent and award-winning publisher of ELT materials with offices in Tokyo, Japan and in San Francisco, California. ABAX texts are in use in universities, colleges, high schools and private language schools around the world.
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Announcements


BREAKING NEWS: Fiction in Action: Whodunit  has won the 2011 ELTons Cambridge ESOL International Award for Innovation!

Last November, Whodunit was awarded The Duke of Edinburgh's English-Speaking Union English Language Award 2010 in an awards ceremony held at Buckingham Palace. Congratulations Adam! Congratulations Marcos!

An eText through Creative Commons!

Fiction in Action: Whodunit. The world's first ELT eText available through Creative Commons. Click on the cover to find out more.

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Events

MEXTESOL 2011

October 27-30 in Morelia, Michoacán. New Challenges for the New Decade in ELT. Find ABAX products on display at the Delti stand.

JALT 2011

November 18-21 at the National Olympics Memorial Center in Yoyogi, Tokyo, Japan. The theme is Teaching, Learning and Growing. On Saturday, November 19th, Alastair Graham-Marr will be presenting on the Intrinsic Motivational Effects of Output from 5.00-6.00 p.m. in Room 311 and Hugh Graham-Marr on Task-Based Narrow Reading from 5.35-6.00 p.m. in Room 308. On Sunday, November 20th, Communication Spotlight author, Alastair Graham-Marr, presents on Teaching Strategies and Skills for Communication from 11.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. in Room 307 and Hugh Graham-Marr on The Detective Story As a Way Into Critical Reading from 12.40-1.05 p.m. in Room 103. Tanja McCandie presents on Supplementary Activities Using ABC Cards from 4.55-5.55 in Room 301. And check out our display in the EME (English Materials Exhibition). We're in booths 31/32/33 across from Books Doing Good and LSI.

TESOL Arabia 2012

March in Dubai, U.A.E.
This is the 19th annual TESOL Arabia conference. Once again we'll be represented by Al Mutanabbi.

Adam Gray on Tour in Russia

March 10-18th. Venues to be announced.

IATEFL Annual Convention 2012

March 19-23rd at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre in Glasgow. You can find ABAX books at the English Language Bookshop display.

TESOL 2012

March 29-31 at the Philadeplphia Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA. Find our display next to the English Central exhibit. Communication Spotlight author Alastair Graham-Marr will be presenting on Introducing Strategies for Communicative Competence at 11.00 a.m. on Saturday, March 31st in Room 118 A. Please drop by!

ECAP 2012

May 27 at the British Council in Kagurazaka, Tokyo, Japan. Sixth time round. In conjunction with Cambridge University Press, the British Council and the Yomiuri Newspaper.