The ELTons (English Language Teaching Innovation Awards) are international awards given annually by the British Council that recognise and celebrate innovation in the field of English language teaching. They reward educational resources that help English language learners and teachers to achieve their goals. Currently sponsored by sponsored by Cambridge English, the ELTons date from 2003. Applications are submitted online by the end of November and they are judged by an independent panel of ELT experts, using the Delphi Technique. The shortlist is published in March and the winners announced at a ceremony in London in May.
Tim Kelly and Hilary Nesi — University of Warwick
Fiona Joseph and Peter Travis — Flo-Joe
Martin Mulloy — BBC Worldwide
Richard Cauldwell — speechinaction (CD-ROM)
Macmillan Education Dictionaries Team — Macmillan Education, range of products (book, CD-ROM and online editions)
Scott Thornbury, Oxford University Press — Natural Grammar
Vanessa Reilly, Oxford University Press — Three in a tree (book and multimedia package)
Simon Mellor-Clark and Yvonne Baker de Altamirano, Macmillan Education — Campaign 1 coursebooks
Sophie Ioannou-Georgiou and Pavlos Pavlou, Oxford University Press — Assessing Young Learners
Corony Edwards and Jane Willis, University of Birmingham and Aston University — Teachers Exploring Tasks
Carol Read, Ana Soberon, Maria Toth and Elisenda Papiol, Macmillan Education — Bugs (multimedia course)
Stuart Rubenstein, Greta Grinfeld, Sally McCrae, Emma Fisher, Camden College of English— "English Language Cultural Experience"
Alison Sharpe, Professor Ronald Carter and Professor Michael McCarthy, Cambridge University Press — The Cambridge Grammar of English (CD-ROM and book)
David Warr, Language Garden — Language Gardening (CD-ROM)
Nicky Hockly and Gavin Dudeney, The Consultants-E, ICT in the Classroom (online course)
Russell Stanard — www.teachertrainingvideos.com
Mary Slattery, Catherine Kneafsey, Lucy Allen, Julia Bell — Teaching with Bear: Using puppets in the language classroom with young learners, Oxford University Press
Scott Thornbury, Luke Meddings, Lindsay Clandfield, Mike Burghall — Teaching Unplugged, Delta Publishing
James Thomas, Martina Pavlickova and Martina Sindelarova Skupenova — Global Issues in the ELT Classroom, Spolecnost pro Fair Trade
Stuart Wiffin and Helen Gibbons — Award For Innovative Writing
Neil Edgeller, Senjuti Masud, Sharif Sadique — Rinku's World, BBC Learning English
Ben Glynne, Dan Humm Soriano, David Wilkins — Communication Station, United International College
Rob Carter, Alice Castle, Abeer Hassan, Sean Keegan, Karim Kouchouk, Abigail Wincott — BBCe!, BBC Learning English
Marcos Benevides, Adam Gray — Fiction in Action: Whodunit, ABAX ELT
Simona Petrescu — Macmillan Education Award For Innovative Writing
Brian Abbs and Ingrid Freebairn — Lifetime Achievement Award
Kate Khoury, Sarah Raybould and Louise Salim — Sensing Humour in English
Nik Peachey — Bell Blended Learning for ELT, Bell
Macmillan Education— Sounds: The Pronunciation App, Macmillan Education
Kyle Mawer, Graham Stanley — Digital Play: Computer games and language aims, Delta Publishing
L2 — Wordready Academic English, L2
Colour Trick — The Colour of Words, Colour Trick S.l.
Alan Maley — Lifetime Achievement Award
Mary Glasgow Scholastic — Mary Glasgow
Y.L.Teresa Ting — CLIL - Biology Towards IGCSE
Herbert Puchta and Günter Gerngross — Hooray! Let’s play! Helbling Languages
Kieran Donaghy — "Film English"
Richard Cauldwell — Cool Speech: Hot Listening, Cool Pronunciation, Speech in Action/Firsty Group
English in Action — English in Action, Bangladesh
Brita Haycraft — Lifetime Achievement Award
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