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NEWS
Announcing the winners

of this year’s ELTons

By Melanie Butler it was a pleasant surprise to see PHOTOGRAPH ©DAVID POULTNEY ©BRITISH
Celebrating its 20th year, the British them handed the trophy.
Council ELTons Awards ceremony, In the face of strong competition
which honours innovation in from Brazil and Oxford, Mexico
English language teaching, took snatched the ELTon for Excellence
place in November 2022. The in Course Innovation for Brain Juice, COUNCIL
event was hosted by author, poet published by Dayton University
and former Children’s Laureate Mexico. Meanwhile, Brazil’s May Winner of the Award for Outstanding Achievement 2022,
Professor Penny Ur, flanked by ceremony host Michael Rosen
Michael Rosen, or Grandfather Moo and Me series, written by and previous winner Dr Catherine Walter
Nice, as he is aptly known in China. Danielle Herson and Lucy Crichton
The list of winners from around won a Judge’s Commendation participatory photography into for the work they had written,
the globe once again underlined for Equality, Diversity and ESOL classes for adult migrants. they did have their moment in
the fact native speakers of English Inclusion, received by publishers The award for Digital Innovation the spotlight when the Award for
are not the only source of great new Stand For/ FTD Educação. The went to a multinational, with Outstanding Achievement was
ideas when it comes to teaching Judges Commendation for the Swedish-owned and Swiss-based announced.
English. Austrian publisher Helbling Environmental Sustainability EFL giant Education First for Professor Penny Ur, OBE,
took home the Learner Resources and Climate Action award went EF Hyper Class, which provides whose books have long been loved
prize for the eponymous Helbling to Pearson and BBC Studios for teachers with “…their own virtual by classroom teachers and whose
Shakespeare series, which combines their global project Speak Out for production studio”. Although endless work with teachers across
reading and performance. Sustainability. it was managers and IT geeks the world garnered her votes from
Authors Riccardo Chiappini The UK came out top in who filled the award stage, the Africa to Argentina, flew in from
and Ethan Mansur came on the Local Innovation category, speech from the EF representative her home in Israel to receive the
stage to receive the Teachers despite fierce competition from receiving the trophy ended with a award from author and previous
Resource Award for their book, as far apart as Greece, Malaysia special thanks to the teachers. winner of the award, Catherine
Activities for Mediation, published and the Ukraine. The winner And as for the authors, most Walter, as the grandfatherly host
by Germany’s Delta Publishing. In was Picture This!, a project of whom were missing not just and author, Michael Rosen, stood
an era when EFL writers are lucky from Learning Unlimited with from the stage but from having by smiling and applauding with
to get a mention on book covers, Fotosynthesis, which took their names on the nominations the rest of the audience.

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