Heinle, an imprint of Wadsworth, is a specialized language publisher featuring original texts, software, and multimedia products for learners and educators in ESL/ELT and World Languages. Heinle's mission is to change the way the world learns languages by finding new and innovative ways to make language learning more accessible, effective, and enjoyable for educators and learners worldwide. Heinle was founded on these principles more than 20 years ago and has earned a position of prominence in both the ESL and World Languages marketplaces, and it is building upon that success in Global ELT as well.

Heinle is the only specialized, multi-level, full-service integrated language publisher in the education market. As such, Heinle uses the synergies involved in language learning across ESL/ELT and World Languages and is a leading publisher of language research for teachers. Heinle publishes across markets in grades 6-12 school for ESL, adult education, college, and international markets. This makes Heinle uniquely attractive to all its constituentsÑauthors, educators, adopters, and employees.

Heinle partners with the language teaching profession in a number of ways:

• Heinle is the sponsor of two distinguished awards in conjunction with International TESOL, the largest organization of ESL/EFL teachers worldwide, entitled the Heinle Distinguished Research Award, and the Heinle Excellence in Teaching Award, as selected by the TESOL awards committee each year.
• Heinle is the exclusive publisher of the American Association of University Supervisors and Coordinators (AAUSC) and Directors of Foreign Language Programs series of annual volumes on language research and program administration.
• Heinle is the exclusive publisher of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and PortugueseÕs (AATSP) annual Handbook for Teachers series.

Heinle products and services take full advantage of multimedia and online content delivery, including InfoTrac¨ College Edition, an online research library that offers instructors and students 24-hour-a-day access to full-text articles from thousands of reliable, scholarly and popular periodicals, CNN videos to augment and expand learning with Heinle materials, QUIA on-line workbooks/lab manuals for foreign languages, and writing assistant software programs in French, German, and Spanish.