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BUSINESS NEWS .

ELTon judges go nuts for Brazil

This year’s shortlist has Melanie Butler singing its innovative praises

nnovating against the odds –
that is the motto bestowed by
the British Council on its 2022
IELTon Awards for innovation PHOTOS BRITISH COUNCIL
post-Covid, the nearest thing the
English language profession has
to the Oscars. Given the grim
impact the pandemic has had
on all sectors of education and
the state of the world, the range
of projects, making it onto the
shortlist is indeed astonishing.
And that shortlist is astonishingly
international.
In the Digital Innovation
category alone, we have an AI-
based conversation app from
Hungary, a free corpus app from
Jiatong-Liverpool University and
a kid’s gamified learning app from
Mindojo which was developed in
Israel, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Italy,
Russia and the USA.
Under Teacher Resources we
find a book from Delta in Germany Caroline Moore of the Hornby Trust and Dr Harry Kuchah, past president of IATEFL and former
on pragmatics. The international Hornby scholar celebrating the ELton awarded to the Trust in 2021
theme is echoed across other
categories too. Under local Educators interested in zeitgeist. Synchronize seems in Muddled by all this new-fangled
Innovation we find a community these areas should take a look many ways an enlightened, methodology? To find out what
of teachers in Tanca, Peru, creating at Psychology in practice from state-of-the-art course. It uses approaches are proved to work
a collaborative space. Helbling Languages, shortlisted collaborative learning in a project- there’s another resource book,
for a prize under the Teacher based course, engaging students An Introduction to Evidence-Based
Viva los ELTons! Resources category. with evidence-based approaches Teaching, by some of the Gazette’s
Latin America is having its own Again from Brazil, and also currently popular in mainstream favourite evidence-based gurus,
ELT revolution and this year the with a focus on socio-emotional education, while also offering Carol Lethaby, Russell Mayne and
region dominates the category Patricia Harries.
Excellence in Course Innovation. There is the brilliantly named
From Mexico we have Brain Artistic license
Juice, a primary course which book, Breaking Through the Unicef’s Transferable Skills makes
harnesses some of the sources a strong showing for artistic
which have powered this regional Screen: Practical tips for expression and there are some
renaissance. From the Unicef serious contenders among the
Framework of Transferable Skills Engaging Learners in the Online shortlisted resources that fill this
the publishers, University of hole in the market.
Dayton Press, have picked Self- and Blended Classroom In the Innovation in Learner
Awareness, Personal Autonomy Resources section we have a
and Artistic Expression. From the competence, we find a whole teachers activities for the CEFR’s brilliant, gritty whodunnit, Father
UN’s Sustainable Development online language school, CNA newish fifth skill, mediation. and Son, from BBC Learning English
Goals they have chosen not only Lab, under Innovation in Learner Any new methodological (the first episode is amazing),
Social Justice, but also Global and Resources. And for teachers still innovation will need a new which also provides interviews and
Environmental Awareness. struggling with online classes, teachers’ resource book and features on drama roles.
The three Brazilian courses on there is the brilliantly named Delta’s second shortlisted entry, In the same category is the
the shortlist echo these themes. resource book from National Ideas in Action: Activities in second shortlisted entry from
Richmond Solution’s English Geographic Learning, Breaking Mediation, neatly fits the bill. our favourite Austrian publisher,
Experience focuses in on global Through the Screen: Practical Tips Meanwhile, those in Brazil Helbling’s Shakespeare Series,
awareness; EXP Educational for Engaging Learners in the Online struggling with that other which includes ‘From Reading
Intelligence (with Macmillan and Blended Classroom. revolutionary concept, English to Performing’ sections and step-
Education Brazil among its team Waving the flag for British as a lingua, should check under by-step instructions on preparing
of collaborators) focuses on self- publishing in the Course Local Innovation for Classroom learners for performance.
awareness in its TransFor.Me Kids Innovation category, OUP’s Practices: English as a lingua franca, For those looking for a more
series; while May Moo and Me Synchronize, aimed at Spanish another entry from StandFor/ academic approach, Lift, the
from StandFor/FTD Educação secondary school pupils, also FTD Educação. second entry from National
highlights emotional well-being. taps into the social psychology
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