Deadline: 28 March 2024
Have you produced an innovative English language teaching or learning product, publication or service in the last two years? Start your ELTons application today!
They’re looking for the most original courses, publications, projects, apps, platforms, and more, which are finding new ways to help English language learners and teachers around the world achieve their goals.
The ELTons Awards are back for 2024, refreshed and ready to showcase the diverse range of innovative products and services available in the English language learning and teaching industry.
What are the ELTons?
- In the English teaching world, the ELTons are considered a mark of quality as well as originality. Entrants are diverse. They include materials writers, teachers, test writers, school owners, academics and programmers, as well as publishers and EdTech companies. Applications, and winners, come from around the globe.
- ELTons finalists and winners report that the awards raise the profile of their work and allow them to reach new networks and audiences.
Categories
- Excellence in Course Innovation
- This award recognises innovation in English Language courses. Typically, applications in this category will possess some or all of these features:
- Learner materials and teacher guides.
- Supplementary or practice materials.
- This award recognises innovation in English Language courses. Typically, applications in this category will possess some or all of these features:
- Innovation in Learner Resources
- This award recognises innovation in any product or service across any media intended for learners, which can be used as self-access or as in-class material. It is not intended that complete courses will be included in this category, rather it might include products and services such as:
- Supplementary materials (extended reading materials, vocabulary or grammar support etc). Formats may be printed or available online.
- Specialist materials (products and services for specialist groups such as specific professions, students with specific academic goals, examination preparation etc).
- This award recognises innovation in any product or service across any media intended for learners, which can be used as self-access or as in-class material. It is not intended that complete courses will be included in this category, rather it might include products and services such as:
- Innovation in Teacher Resources
- This award recognises innovation in products or services aimed at developing and supporting English language teachers and might include:
- Training courses and materials intended specifically for teachers (they can be in any format, printed, audio, video, digital, online).
- Works of reference intended for teachers (such as reference grammars etc).
- This award recognises innovation in products or services aimed at developing and supporting English language teachers and might include:
- Innovation in the Use of Technology
- This award is intended to recognise innovative uses of technology in a product or service that enhances English language learning or teaching. This may include:
- English language learning and teaching products and services which use new technological innovations, e.g. artificial intelligence, gamification, learning analytics, predictive learning, Virtual Reality (VR)/Augmented Reality (AR) etc.
- English language learning and teaching products or services which make new or original use of more established technologies, e.g. apps, platforms, video assisted learning, social media etc.
- This award is intended to recognise innovative uses of technology in a product or service that enhances English language learning or teaching. This may include:
- Local Innovation
- This award is intended to recognise innovation in creating learner or teacher solutions to meet a specific local need.
- It recognises and rewards the use of initiative and resource in restricted, trying or limited circumstances beyond the writers’ control, and which can make a significant contribution to overcoming these difficulties.
- Examples might include:
- Development of local networks intended to promote teacher or learner development.
- Development of localised materials or syllabuses.
Eligibility
Below are some key points to take on board when applying to the ELTons. Make sure your product or service meets these criteria to ensure you’re submitting a viable application:
- Innovations submitted to the ELTons 2024 must have been completed within the two years prior to the 2024 application closing date.
- Applications can only be submitted to one award.
- However, applicants can submit multiple different applications to the awards and into different award categories (e.g. including from overseas offices).
- Entries can only be submitted to the awards once; they cannot be re-submitted in subsequent years.
- You cannot resubmit a volume in a series if a volume has already been submitted in previous years. Where the elements of a series, such as a series of handbooks for teachers, are on different subjects these may be submitted individually. This is especially relevant for the Excellence in Course Innovation Award.
- Entries cannot be submitted which have been led by or have had significant involvement from the British Council or (a) British Council employee(s).
- It is not possible to enter the awards solely for the ELTons Judges’ Commendations. Submissions are an optional part of the application to one of the main ELTons award categories. The commendations are not separate award categories, but are additional special commendations given only to finalists of the awards.
For more information, visit British Council.
