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BUSINESS NEWS .

A year of firsts

The annual ELTons Innovation Awards saw a range
of new winners

n 15 November 2021, the ELTons an ELT thought leader who is not UK-based.
went truly global. Entries for the The father of Task Based Language Teaching,
annual British Council awards NS Prabhu, now in his mid-90s, was unable to
Ofor innovations in helping English attend, but recorded a short speech of thanks From left, IATEFL president Harry Kuchah
language learners and teachers were received from his home in South India. Professor Prabhu, Kuchah and Caroline Moore, chair of the
from 55 countries across six continents this who taught in his native India and at universities Hornby Trust, receive the Outstanding
year, while at the event itself 400 online viewers in Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan and Brazil, is Achievement Award from presenter
and nearly 10,000 viewers on Facebook from only the second non-native speaker of English Lauren Laverne
around the world joined the live audience of and the second non-European to win the award.
200 in London as the new British Council Other global winners at the ceremony, The Digital Innovation Award went to a pan-
chief executive, Canadian Scott McDonald, which was brilliantly hosted by award-winning European team led by Lancaster University with
opened the ceremony. broadcaster Lauren Laverne, included the Hands members from Greece, Germany and Cyprus
For the first time, two Outstanding Up project, which took the Local Innovation for their CIELL-Comics for Inclusive English
Achievement Awards were presented, one to an Award for its work with Palestinian teachers Language Learning, an app designed to help
individual and one to an organisation. The new and children; while Brazil took the Course dyslexic and non-dyslexic learners of English.
prize for an organisation went to the Hornby Innovation category with Our Languages from In another ELTons first, the ELTons’ Judges’
Trust, which funds teachers all over the world to StandFor Publishers, part of FTD Educação. Commendation for Environmental Sustainability
take a Master’s degree in the UK. As the audience The EU also did well with Spain’s Boolino and Climate Action went to Sensations English,
applauded, this year’s cohort of Hornby scholars, taking the Learner Resource prize for its Fiction an online and app-based resource offering global
led by the chair of the Trust, received their ELTon Express app and the Teacher Resource prize going news-based lessons covering world issues, such
from IATEFL president Harry Kuchah Kuchah, to Delta Publishing, now owned in Germany, for as climate change. Sensations English was also
himself a former Hornby scholar . the book Teaching English to Pre-Primary Children one of nine entries, from New Zealand to Oman,
Meanwhile, the individual Outstanding by Portugal-based Sandie Mourão and Gail Ellis, to receive a Judges’ Commendation for Equality,
Achievement Award went for the first time to a long-time resident of France. Diversity and Inclusion Award.

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