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