The winners of the ELTons 2011 have now been announced! The ceremony, sponsored by Cambridge ESOL, took place on 23 February in London, marking the seventh year of the prestigious awards.
Find out who won an award at the ELTons 2011 ceremony in the following categories:
BBC Learning English
Neil Edgeller, Senjuti Masud, Sharif Sadique
Rinku’s World is a ground-breaking, multi-platform, English language teaching concept for Bangladeshi learners. Content is accessible via prime-time TV broadcasts, mobile phone, print and the web.
It follows the adventures of Rinku – a young Bangladeshi trying to win the affections of his colleague Pinky while struggling to overcome his problems with English. Characters from Rinku’s office and home take learners through a madcap journey involving superheroes, gurus, bizarre dream sequences and a cat. Viewers, like Rinku, learn how to improve their English through his adventures.
Learning begins by watching the TV animation or perhaps listening to a three-minute mobile audio lesson which is thematically-linked yet stand-alone. With each audio lesson available at a cost of just 50 paisa (half a pence) per minute, the lessons are affordable to all.
Rinku’s World is produced by the BBC in collaboration with SW Multi-media, a local Bangladeshi animation and film company.
United International College
Ben Glynne, Dan Humm Soriano, David Wilkins
The Communication Station is an organised language learning experience, taught and run from United International College (UIC) in London. As part of their English course with UIC, students take a class involving making and broadcasting a radio programme. Students are encouraged to take control of all aspects of the course from selection of topic and music through planning, interviewing, scripting, and recording to final edit. During classes, English skills are developed in a real environment alongside other practical skills which require language (i.e. editing). The programmes are broadcast every 2 weeks on the school radio website (uiclondonradio.com).
BBC Learning English
Rob Carter, Alice Castle, Abeer Hassan, Sean Keegan, Karim Kouchouk, Abigail Wincott
With 1.2 million listeners a week in Egypt, BBCe! is an engaging FM radio show broadcast in Egypt and across the Arab World. Presented from London and Cairo in a unique Arabic and English bilingual conversation, themed programmes blend education, entertainment, news and views with opportunities for learning current vocabulary and expressions. We ask people in London and Cairo the same questions so that listeners get to hear what people both cities think.
BBCe! e for ... English! Entertainment! Exchange! BBCe! is supported by a website, podcast and fans have set up a Facebook group.
ABAX ELT
Marcos Benevides, Adam Gray
Fiction in Action: Whodunit is a reading text for low-intermediate through intermediate level students of English. The book is intended to act as a bridge to extended reading. Two original six-chapter stories introduce students to the how’s and the pleasures of reading accessible fiction in English while providing students with extensive support. The book focuses on reading within one genre—the detective story—familiarizing students with the language, style and literary conventions associated with this form of story.
A special feature of the text is tasks intrinsic to the stories. That is, the tasks in Whodunit are not merely supportive of but built into the stories. They are intrinsically motivating tasks that students have to complete to move the story forward.
Finally, in addition to the text, students receive a detective notebook for recording new words and important points about the cases and an audio CD for additional listening practice.
Romania
Professional English for Human Resources (HR) course in which the structure mirrors the flow of the HR process. Each unit is made up of three components: vocabulary building, deployment of vocabulary in specific structures and integration
Brian Abbs is a writer of courses for teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL), mostly co-written with Ingrid Freebairn and others. His work includes Strategies, Challenges, Discoveries, Flying Start, Blueprint, Splash, American Blueprint, the Snapshot series for young teenagers and most recently, Sky for junior learners. Together with Ingrid, he is currently advising on a new project for young junior learners.
Brian studied English Literature at university and later took the Diploma course in Applied Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. Before becoming a full-time writer, he taught English in Sweden, Brighton and London, where he was Head of the ELT Division in the Language Faculty at Ealing College of Higher Education (now Thames Valley University).
Ingrid Freebairn has worked in ELT since 1968, first as a teacher and teacher trainer and then as a writer. She is co-author with Brian Abbs of the following multi-level coursebooks published by Pearson Longman: Strategies, Discoveries, Blueprint, Snapshot and Sky. She also co-authored the Grammar ROM and FCE Grammar ROM, and a further global course for teenagers, Upbeat. As well as writing, she has worked as an examiner for the University of Cambridge and also as an inspector of private language schools for the British Council Accreditation scheme. In the course of her work, Ingrid has travelled widely in Europe and Latin America.
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