See the winners of the ELTRA 2020 awards

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The 2020 British Council ELT Research Awards programme attracted 25 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 proposals were selected to receive a grant this year:

Liverpool John Moores University, Professor Michael Thomas

Minimum academic standards and the English language curriculum in Nigerian universities: benchmarking, implementation and evaluation (MERLIN Project)

University of Strathclyde, Dr Dario Banegas

Preparing future teachers for different CLIL models: An in-depth investigation of three cases

University of Bath, Dr Samantha Curle

University lecturer strategy use to introduce and explain STEM terminology in EMI contexts: an exploratory comparative study of China, Turkey, South Africa and Nepal

De Montfort University, Dr Jie Liu

How is critical thinking incorporated into pre-service teacher education in China?

University of Cambridge, Professor Ianthi Tsimpli

Reading for comprehension in primary school children in India: a teacher training programme

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