ELTon Award

The ELTon Award is given by the British Council for English language teaching innovation.

2003 winners

2004 winners

2005 winners

  • 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

2006 winners

2007 winners

2010 winners

  • 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 Gibbon — Award For Innovative Writing

2011 winners

  • 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

2012 winners

  • 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

2013 winners

  • 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

2014 winners

  • Excellence in Course Innovation - Dyslexia for Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (Dystefl) by Dystefl Project
  • Innovation in Learner Resources - Academic Skills Series by Collins
  • Innovation in Teacher Resources - The Disabled Access Friendly campaign by Katie Quartano and Paul Shaw
  • Digital Innovation - Doctors Speak Up: Communication and Language Skills for International Medical Graduates by R. Woodward-Kron, C. Bow, C. Fraser, J. Pill, E. Flynn
  • Local Innovation - P.A.L.S Scheme, (Promoting Acceptance of Language Students) - Country Cousins Ltd
  • The Macmillan Education Award for New Talent in Writing -Compass (Upper Intermediate) by Elizabeth (Lizzie) Pinard
  • British Council The Lifetime Achievement Award - Michael Swan

2015 winners

  • Excellence in Course Innovation - Oxford Discover by Oxford University Press
  • Innovation in Learner Resources - Oxford Learner’s Dictionary of Academic English by Oxford University Press, with Paragon Software GmbH (app)
  • Innovation in Teacher Resources - "Life Skills" by Macmillan Education
  • Digital Innovation - Little Bridge by Little Bridge
  • Local Innovation -Talk English by Manchester Adult Education Service, Manchester City Council with The Department for Communities and Local Government (UK)
  • The Macmillan Education Award for New Talent in Writing - EAP Shakespeare Dr Chris Lima
  • The British Council Lifetime Achievement Award - Henry Widdowson

2016 winners

  • Excellence in Course Innovation - Keynote by National Geographic Learning with Cengage Learning
  • Innovation in Learner Resources - Literacy for Active Citizenship by Learning Unlimited LTD
  • Innovation in Teacher Resources - Digital Video – A Manual for Language Teachers by PeacheyPublications.com
  • Digital Innovation - Movies: Enjoy Language by Archimedes Inspiration, a.s.
  • Local Innovation - Teaching English in Africa by East African Educational Publishers Ltd.
  • The Macmillan Education Award for New Talent in Writing - "Academic English for the 21st Century Learner" by Aylin Graves
  • The British Council Lifetime Achievement Award - "Catherine Walter"

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