The following twelve projects received their Award from Sir Trevor McDonald at a high-profile, prize-giving ceremony in London on 16 July 2008. For more details about these projects, click on the project name.

Primary

• Interactive DVD and web resource films, St Austins Catholic Primary, Liverpool
• Christopher Columbus language and content integrated project, Haddon Primary and Nursery, Nottingham
• Passeport citoyenneté et santé, Woodhill Primary School, Glasgow
    

Primary & Secondary

• Project croissant, The Earls High School, West Midlands

Secondary

• Double club, Arsenal Football Club, London
• Group talk, Wildern School, Hampshire
• Passport to export, Hayle Community School, Cornwall
• Pont sur la Manche/Bridging the Channel, Hove Park Language College, Hove
• Suffolk Hotel work related project, Suffolk Inclusive School Improvement Service, Ipswich
• Translingual express, Eastside Educational Trust, London

Higher education/Adult learning

• Jinrikisha – how we learnt Japanese, School of Oriental and African Studies, London
• Szacunek/Meas, Gael Linn/West Armagh Consortium, Armagh

Highly commended

The following projects received a Highly Commended Certificate:

• Motivating, encouraging and improving language learning in adult classes through the use of ILT, Cornwall Adult Education Service
• The Language Café, University of Southampton
• Chinese Studies Across The Curriculum in Perth & Kinross, Perth & Kinross Council
• Wix Bilingual primary stream/ Classe bilangue de lecole de Wix, Wix Primary, London
• Modern Languages at OpenLearn, Open University
• "Signing with Babies and Young Children", Signs for Success, London
• Procter & Gamble FSS Language School, Procter & Gamble Technical Centres, Newcastle upon Tyne
• ¡Que alivio! Beginners Spanish for Medics, King's College London