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