The British Council Innovation Awards for English language teaching (ELT) products and services, or 'Eltons', are the Oscars of the ELT world. They are offered to outstanding new language learning resources which use innovative ideas to help learners of English to achieve their goals, or to innovative research which has clear practical benefits for English language teaching.

There are two categories of our Innovation Awards: 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 UK ELT and an incentive to the industry to keep on developing new products. The next awards ceremony will take place in London in March 2009.