ELTon Award

The ELTon Award is given by the British Council for English language teaching innovation.

2003 winners
Tim Kelly and Hilary Nesi — University of Warwick
Fiona Joseph and Peter Travis — Flo-Joe

2004 winners
Richard Cauldwell — speechinaction (CD-ROM)
Macmillan Education Dictionaries Team — Macmillan Education, range of products (book, CD-ROM and online editions)
Scott Thornbury, Oxford University Press — 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 Birmingham and Aston University — 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 Press — 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 Thornbury, 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

2012 winners
Kate Khoury, Sarah Raybould and Louise Salim — Sensing Humour in English
Nik Peachey — Bell Blended Learning for ELT, Bell
Macmillan Education— Sounds: The Pronunciation App, Macmillan Education
Kyle Mawer, Graham Stanley  — Digital Play: Computer games and language aims, Delta Publishing
L2 — Wordready Academic English, L2
Colour Trick — The Colour of Words, Colour Trick S.l.
Alan Maley — Lifetime Achievement Award

2013 winners
Mary Glasgow Scholastic — Mary Glasgow
Y.L.Teresa Ting — CLIL - Biology Towards IGCSE
Herbert Puchta and Günter Gerngross — Hooray! Let’s play! Helbling Languages
Kieran Donaghy — "Film English" 
Richard Cauldwell — Cool Speech: Hot Listening, Cool Pronunciation, Speech in Action/Firsty Group
English in Action — English in Action, Bangladesh
Brita Haycraft — Lifetime Achievement Award

2014 winners
Excellence in Course Innovation - Dyslexia for Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (Dystefl) by Dystefl Project
Innovation in Learner Resources - Academic Skills Series by Collins
Innovation in Teacher Resources - The Disabled Access Friendly campaign by Katie Quartano and Paul Shaw
Digital Innovation - Doctors Speak Up: Communication and Language Skills for International Medical Graduates by R. Woodward-Kron, C. Bow, C. Fraser, J. Pill, E. Flynn
Local Innovation - P.A.L.S Scheme, (Promoting Acceptance of Language Students) - Country Cousins Ltd
The Macmillan Education Award for New Talent in Writing -Compass (Upper Intermediate) by Elizabeth (Lizzie) Pinard
 British Council The Lifetime Achievement Award - Michael Swan

2015 winners
Excellence in Course Innovation - Oxford Discover by Oxford University Press
Innovation in Learner Resources - Oxford Learner’s Dictionary of Academic English by Oxford University Press, with Paragon Software GmbH (app)
Innovation in Teacher Resources - "Life Skills" by Macmillan Education
Digital Innovation - Little Bridge by Little Bridge
Local Innovation -Talk English by Manchester Adult Education Service, Manchester City Council with The Department for Communities and Local Government (UK)
The Macmillan Education Award for New Talent in Writing - EAP Shakespeare Dr Chris Lima
The British Council Lifetime Achievement Award -  Henry Widdowson

2016 winners
Excellence in Course Innovation - Keynote by National Geographic Learning with Cengage Learning
Innovation in Learner Resources - Literacy for Active Citizenship by Learning Unlimited LTD
Innovation in Teacher Resources - Digital Video – A Manual for Language Teachers by PeacheyPublications.com
Digital Innovation - Movies: Enjoy Language by Archimedes Inspiration, a.s.
Local Innovation - Teaching English in Africa by East African Educational Publishers Ltd.
The Macmillan Education Award for New Talent in Writing - "Academic English for the 21st Century Learner" by Aylin Graves
The British Council Lifetime Achievement Award - "Catherine Walter"

Other websites 
 Official site of the British Council
 British Council innovation awards

Awards