The 2016 British Council ELT Research Awards programme attracted 28 high quality proposals from universities across the UK.
All submissions were reviewed by a panel of evaluators against the following criteria:
- impact
- innovation
- feasibility
- expertise
- opportunities for international collaboration
- value for money
- alignment with British Council priorities.
The following seven proposals were selected to receive a grant this year:
Coventry University
Dr Marina Orsini-Jones
B-MELTT - Blending MOOCs for English language teacher training
B-MELTT - Blending MOOCs for English language teacher training
Newcastle University
Professor Steve Walsh
SETTVEO: Evidence based reflection and teacher development
SETTVEO: Evidence based reflection and teacher development
Northumbria University
Graham Hall
English language education and migration: implications for secondary level students who have English as an Additional Language
English language education and migration: implications for secondary level students who have English as an Additional Language
Queen's University Belfast
Dr Aisling O’Boyle
Digital data-driven learning and teaching: making best use of corpora for English language teaching
Digital data-driven learning and teaching: making best use of corpora for English language teaching
University of Glasgow
Anna Rolinska
Establishing and sustaining pre-sessional student partnerships across borders
Establishing and sustaining pre-sessional student partnerships across borders
University of Nottingham
Ana Pellicer-Sánchez
L2 reading and reading-while-listening in multi-modal learning conditions: an eye-tracking study
L2 reading and reading-while-listening in multi-modal learning conditions: an eye-tracking study
University of Warwick
Dr Steve Mann
Video in language teacher education
Video in language teacher education