Cambridge University Press and Language Teaching are pleased to announce the winner and runner-up of the 2025 Christopher Brumfit Essay Prize:

Winner

Dan Zhou, Monash University, Australia
When AI speaks too loudly: Rethinking English learning in China’s English language centre

Runner-up

Qianhui Sun, University of Edinburgh, UK
Rethinking the role of teachers in generative AI-supported task-based language teaching

Honourable mention

Dr Kallia Katsampoxaki-Hodgetts, University of Ioannina, Greece
There is no box for me to tick: Lessons learned from conducting critical discourse analysis for multiliteracies

The Winner and the Runner-up essay will be published in the October issue of the journal.