Elton awards
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Since 2003 the British Council
has awarded the "English Language Teaching Innovation Award" ("Eltons").
British Council
The British Council is a United Kingdom-based organisation specialising in international educational and cultural opportunities. It is registered as a charity both in England and Wales, and in Scotland...
has awarded the "English Language Teaching Innovation Award" ("Eltons").
2003 winners
- Tim Kelly and Hilary Nesi — University of WarwickUniversity of WarwickThe University of Warwick is a public research university located in Coventry, United Kingdom...
- Fiona Joseph and Peter Travis — Flo-Joe
- Martin Mulloy — BBC WorldwideBBC WorldwideBBC Worldwide Limited is the wholly owned commercial subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation, formed out of a restructuring of its predecessor BBC Enterprises in 1995. In the year to 31 March 2010 it made a profit of £145m on a turnover of £1.074bn. The company had made a profit of £106m...
2004 winners
- Richard Cauldwell — speechinaction (CD-ROMCD-ROMA CD-ROM is a pre-pressed compact disc that contains data accessible to, but not writable by, a computer for data storage and music playback. The 1985 “Yellow Book” standard developed by Sony and Philips adapted the format to hold any form of binary data....
) - Macmillan Education Dictionaries Team — Macmillan Education, range of products (book, CD-ROM and online editions)
- Scott ThornburyScott ThornburyScott Thornbury is Associate Professor of English Language Studies at the New School in New York, where he teaches on an on-line MATESOL program...
, Oxford University PressOxford University PressOxford University Press is the largest university press in the world. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics appointed by the Vice-Chancellor known as the Delegates of the Press. They are headed by the Secretary to the Delegates, who serves as...
— Natural Grammar
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
- Corony Edwards and Jane Willis, University of BirminghamUniversity of BirminghamThe University of Birmingham is a British Redbrick university located in the city of Birmingham, England. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Birmingham Medical School and Mason Science College . Birmingham was the first Redbrick university to gain a charter and thus...
and Aston UniversityAston UniversityAston University is a "plate glass" campus university situated at Gosta Green, in the city centre of Birmingham, England.Established in 1895 as the Birmingham Municipal Technical School, Aston was granted its Royal Charter as Aston University on 22 April 1966...
— 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"
2007 winners
- Alison Sharpe, Professor Ronald Carter and Professor Michael McCarthy, Cambridge University PressCambridge University PressCambridge University Press is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII in 1534, it is the world's oldest publishing house, and the second largest university press in the world...
— 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)
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 ThornburyScott ThornburyScott Thornbury is Associate Professor of English Language Studies at the New School in New York, where he teaches on an on-line MATESOL program...
, 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