The ELTons (British Council Innovation Awards) are offered to outstanding new language learning products and services, which use innovative ideas to help learners achieve their goals, or to innovative research which has clear practical benefits for English language teaching.

There are two categories for the ELTons: UK and International. The UK awards celebrate Britain's high reputation for ELT products and services whilst the new International category of awards celebrate the scope of high quality ELT products and services developed outside of the UK. The awards are both a celebration of excellence in ELT and an incentive to the industry to keep on developing new products. The next awards ceremony will take place in London on 04 March 2009.