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ELawards
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Honouring ELT innovation
he list of finalists for the
British Council’s ELTons
T– ‘the Oscars of ELT’
– is now out. Sponsored by
Cambridge Language Assess- Matt Salusbury runs through the nominations for
ment and Macmillan Education,
the ELTons celebrate innovation this year’s ELTon awards – the ‘Oscars of ELT’
and excellence in English lan-
guage teaching. There are awards
in six categories: Excellence in
Course Innovation; Innovation in
Learner Resources; Innovation in
Teacher Resources; Digital Inno- global brands such as Macmil- There are also phone apps, an
vation; Local Innovation; and the
Macmillan Education Award for Geographic/Cengage, Richmond,
New Talent in Writing. Cambridge University Press blended learning courses, a series
This year’s shortlisted entries
once again feature a mixture of
the giants of ELT publishing several entries from small presses
April 2016
Innovation in Learner Resources
Honouring any product or service aimed at learners
Academic Presenting young learners, including an
rubbing shoulders with some in Spain, some self-published in the United Arab Emirates. & Presentations Peter interactive student ebook, it
self-published one-person bands. ebooks and one item from Nik A panel of judges – their iden- Levrai & Averil Bolster A aims to engage students and
Along with coursebook series by Peachey’s Peachey Publications. tities a closely guarded secret research-based course parents outside the class-
– only get to see each other’s designed to help students room with video and images
lan, Express Publishing, National ELT video game for smartphones, unattributed comments on the cultivate presentation skills
two ELT podcast channels, some various entries submitted for the and deal with the various Literacy for Active
ELTons. Even they don’t know presentation tasks they Citizenship Learning
(CUP), Oxford University Press of ‘multimedia posters’ and a who has won until the awards may face at university Unlimited Ltd Graded
(OUP) and Helbling, there are mobile learning tool developed by ceremony in June. readers for Esol featuring
a university foundation programme And the finalists are… Explore Our World Clil funny, personal and less
Readers Express Publish- typical stories about life
ing A six-level series of in the UK, written by Esol
Digital Innovation award non-fiction EFL graded learners and volunteers
readers for young learn- who befriended them
Honouring a digital product or service that enhances ers aged 7+, employing
learning through the innovative use of technology themes from England’s Richmond Business
national curriculum. Topics Theories Richmond ELT A
Connections J. Balanyk, Movies: Enjoy Lan-
J. Bidal & R. Radwan, guages Archimedes covered include cross-cul- series of online products at
tural myths and legends four levels teaching business
Zayed University, UAE An Inspiration a.s. Films
ebook aimed at engaging adapted for iPad, trans- ideas and giving students
Grammar Checker practice in using them
Emirati school leavers lated with original transcript
and developing critical and translation in columns Universidad Nacional de through animated lectures
Educación a Distancia
thinking skills running simultaneously
An online tool for EFL The Thinking Train
students at A2–C2 level Helbling Languages A
EssayJack EssayJack The Listening Post Paul
Inc. A web app that helps Driver A collection of inter- who wish to improve their ‘carefully graded’ picture-
writing book series focusing on
structure English-language active multimedia posters
student essays by provid- for classrooms or around a developing children’s
Guess What! CUP A six- thinking skills through the
ing sentence stems and school, featuring images,
tips for academic writing vocabulary or tips on a level coursebook for EFL use of stories
particular theme
Learn British English
with Luke Thompson Wibbu English: The
Luke’s English Podcast Game Wibbu An ELT video Innovation in Teacher Resources
A free audio service for game for smartphones and Honouring any complete courses in any media, or mul-
English language learners, tablets aimed at secondary timedia courses, whether in the form of coursebooks,
with maximum exposure to schools and Spanish- teachers’ books, audio, CD-Roms or websites
authentic spoken English speaking adults
Digital Video – A manual resources including videos
for language teachers and posters
Peachey Publications An
Local Innovation award ebook manual to help Tefl Preparation Course
teachers develop their ELTCampus An online
Honouring an EFL product or service developed at a digital skills and use video course preparing candi-
local, national or regional level
to build online courses or dates to start initial ELT
Creative English Family Teaching English in Africa activities for their students qualifications such as
Learning: 12 Sessions for East African Educational Celta or CertTesol
Families with Pre-school Publishers Ltd A practi- Language Learning with
Children FaithAction cal guide for primary and Digital Video CUP A The Tefl Commute Lindsay
Resources include suit- secondary school English resource book for teach- Clandfield, Shaun Wilden
cases of puppets language teachers ers and trainee teachers & James Taylor A podcast
on using video content in – currently in its second
Read On! Mobile Class The Little English Library the language classroom, season – aimed at practis-
Library Project for Italy The Little English Library A with activities suitable for a ing language teachers
OUP A project providing non-profit library of English range of learners at differ-
teacher training around children’s books for chil- ent levels www.EFLtalks.com Rob
mobile class libraries for dren in the Netherlands Howard A searchable
Italian schools Teachers Research! database of ten-minute
The Macmillan Early Learn- Iatefl Research SIG A videos by education
Teacher Trainer Academy ing Path (MELP) Macmillan teacher-friendly collec- professionals, recorded on
DOS-ELTea An intensive Education A coursebook and tion of research stories World Teachers’ Day by
74-hourblended teacher resource pack for parents to connected by hyperlinks fifty presenters restricted
training programme use at home to multimedia online to ten PowerPoint slides
Excellence in Macmillan Education
Course Innovation Award for New Talent
Honouring an outstanding product or in Writing
service aimed at teachers, including
training, education or development
Academic Eng- of ‘flipped class-
Eyes Open CUP Subject Pro- lish for the 21st room’ lesson plans
A new four-level jects 2: English Century Learner and Clil materials
course (A1–B1+) Ikaselkar Publishing Aylin Graves
for teenage learn- A Clil-based Eng- Two-part textbook My friend TED:
ers that includes lish course currently series for non- Academic Listen-
fresh approaches used by over 8,000 native-speaker ing with TED
to exploiting students as part of students Talks Naheen
video to tap into the curriculum of Madarbakus-Ring
students’ natural the Basque Country Advanced A course of 25
curiosity autonomous region Phrases and lessons using
in Spain Expressions listening materials
Keynote National James Warwick around TED talks
Geographic U Dare 9 Areal Self-study book
Learning/Cengage Editores A new accompanied by Study Skills for
Learning Keynote coursebook aimed audio CD and Academic Read-
is a coursebook at motivating online downloads ing Ian Pemberton
series featuring 14–15-year-olds A course book
authentic language at level B1 and Clil in my class- series that comes
input from the TED demanding mixed- room Jelena with PowerPoint
Talks series ability students Petrovic A collection presentations