- ELT Master's Dissertations Award winners
2019 - 2020 winners
The Master's Dissertation Awards promote achievements of students on UK Master's programmes for work with the best potential for impact on ELT. Find out which dissertations won or received special commendations this year.
2019 - 2020 Awards
All dissertations are available in pdf format below.
Winning dissertation
Page Wheeler from University College London for her dissertation: The Effect of vowel accuracy, visual speech, and iconic gesture on intelligibility.
Special Commendations
Yvonne Yim from the University of Oxford: Reassessing ownership of English in ELF through self-perceived L2 identity and self- directed English accent preference among Hong Kong students in UK universities.
Xu Han from the University of Liverpool: Evaluation of Authenticity: Comparison of Dialogues in a Chinese Coursebook and Authentic Interactions.
Linh Huong Le from the University of Birmingham: A comparative study investigating teachers’ and students’ perceptions of the factors affecting students’ motivation to participate in English classes in Vietnamese high schools.
Commendations
Helen Down from St Mary’s University Twickenham London: A partial replication of Thaine 2004, “The assessment of second language teaching” in ELT Journal 58/4
Caroline Collier from Manchester Metropolitan University: The perceived roles of the tutor in writing consultations for international students in a UK higher education institution
Sthephanie Llanos Gonzalez from the University of Glasgow: Exploring Chilean EFL Teachers’ Beliefs and Practices in Learner Autonomy as Language Learners and Language Teachers
Camilla Woodman from the University of Bath: Closing the gap between ELF theory and practice: an action research case study
Douglas Evans from Lancaster University: Speaking to be understood: Indonesian students’ perceived and actual understanding of Indonesian academics’ English speech
Chi Hin Lok from Newcastle University: Lookup Strategies in the Use of Online Bilingualised Dictionaries by English-Medium Secondary School Graduates in Macao: A Small-Scale Think-Aloud Study
Albert Cleisthenes Wong from the University of Stirling: Dialogic classroom discourse analysis of discipline-specific EAP classroom in a Hong Kong university
Patrick Amoyaw from the University of Reading: What are the practices of EMI in Ghanaian public schools and to what extent do teachers use the L1 to facilitate learning?
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The British Council, in partnership with the British International Studies Association, is pleased to invite entries to a master's dissertation competition from institutions teaching international relations courses.
We are looking for master’s dissertations that provide new scholarly insight and/or offers a new policy direction and that make an original contribution to international relations.
The prize recognises and promotes the achievements of students who completed their master’s programmes in international relations in the UK, in the academic year 2022-23.
The scheme is an opportunity for institutions to promote their programmes and for recent graduates to establish themselves in the field, and there are exciting prizes to be won.
For more information about the competition and submission guidelines, please check this link
Application deadline: 12 February 2024,11.59 p.m. (UK time)
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British Council Masters Dissertation Award for School of Education student
Congratulations to Matt Gunton, one of our MA Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (Distance Learning) students.
Matt's dissertation was entered by the School of Education into the British Council Masters Dissertation Awards, which promote achievements of students on UK Master's programmes for work with the best potential for impact on English Language Teaching policy and practice.
Entitled “Going against the grain: an autoethnography of a one-teacher private English language teaching institution in Taiwan”, Matt's dissertation received a commendation.
The strength of this dissertation is, in no small part, due to the success of the supervisor-student partnership between Dr Xin Gao and Matt. Xin saw the potential of Matt’s research and supported him to engage with what was a very unfamiliar methodology. With Matt, Xin produced a strong statement of the dissertation’s impact, novelty, credibility and applicability, which was read by the judges alongside the dissertation itself.
The full dissertation will be published on the British Council website soon.
Matt’s achievements should also be understood in the context of the timing of his studies. When he applied for the course, he was living in Taiwan but he returned to the UK with his family, just as the pandemic started. He continued his studies despite the upheavals and, despite semi-retirement, has remained active in language teaching and is currently teaching Ukrainian refugees.
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- ELT Master's Dissertations Award winners
2022 - 2023 winners
The Master's Dissertation Awards promote achievements of students on UK Master's programmes for work with the best potential for impact on ELT. Find out which dissertations won or received special commendations this year.
2022-2023 Awards
All dissertations are available to read in pdf format below.
Winning Dissertation
Mellidy Campbell-Lochrie , University of St Andrews A socio-political and cultural driven analysis of the representations of protected characteristics in UK-produced ELT textbooks, through the lens of the Equality Act (2010)
Special Commendations
Jack Duncan , Canterbury Christ Church University Motivation and out-of-class language learning
Phuoc Ha Thien Nguyen , Nottingham Trent University Investigating the content validity of the IELTS listening test through the use of lexical bundles
Mathilde Smith , University of Strathclyde Exploring and mitigating foreign language anxiety amongst adult migrants (refugees, asylum seekers and forced migrants) in an ESOL/EFL class in Scotland
Commendations
Arthur Brown Jr , University of Bath Exploring Turkish EFL teachers’ lesson planning strategies for building ELF awareness
Kate Armstrong , University of Birmingham An Investigation into the types and functions of teacher gestures during the opening phase of ESL Lessons
Beatrice Segura Harvey , University of Brighton Teacher competencies post Covid-19: What constitutes an effective online teacher?
Novemelia Purba , University of Bristol An exploratory study of students’ second language willingness to communicate (L2 WTC) in a summer programme: Teachers’ and students’ perceptions
Monika Rozmiarek , Coventry University Elementary ESOL materials for Polish parents of nursery children
Thuy Dieu Nguyen , University of East Anglia Exploring the perceptions of EFL student teachers on their learning experience during the teaching practicum: A comparative study
Kittipong Phormphithak , University of Glasgow Foreign language classroom anxiety among Thai postgraduate students in UK universities
Thi Hai Yen Phan , University of Huddersfield Student satisfaction with English Medium Instruction courses in Vietnam
Duncan Ogilvie , University of Leeds Variation in the communicative orientation of English for Academic Purposes lessons in synchronous online and face-to-face classrooms
Samira Niazi , University of Liverpool Teachers' views, challenges, and strategies toward pupils’ bilingualism and translanguaging
Louise Sandiford , Manchester Metropolitan University Challenging labels within TESOL - Seeing our students differently
Ahmed Othman El Mekkawi , NILE (University of Chichester) An investigation into the design and piloting of an online self-access course focusing on English language materials evaluation and adaptation for in-service English language teachers at Al-Azhar University in Egypt
Matthew Gunton , University of Nottingham Going against the grain: An autoethnography of a one-teacher private English language teaching institution in Taiwan
Chiho Takeda , University of Reading A comparison of Aptis trained raters and Japanese teachers’ holistic scores and judgments of Japanese students’ Aptis writing performance
Felicity Bell , University of Stirling Interpretative phenomenological analysis of learners’ responses to Emergency Remote Teaching during Covid-19 confinement
Pasha Blanda , University College London Application of the construct of coherence to diagnostic Ttesting in English Medium Instruction in higher education
Nguyen Thi Hong Ha , University of Warwick An exploratory study on reflective practice of L2 teacher-learners' experiences in an MA TESOL program
Mitchell Culhane , York St John University ‘In Japanese I can’t be my true self, in English I can be free’: L2 identity construction and English-language learning motivation of the transnational queer communities in 新宿二丁目 (Shinjuku Ni-chōme),Tokyo, Japan
Tuong Thanh Ho , University of York Cultures representation in the reading and CLIL sections of four Vietnamese ELT textbooks
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- MA Graduate Garry Hobbs wins The Master's Dissertation Award
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Every year the British Council partners with UK universities to find ELT master's dissertations with potential for impact on policy and practice. The scheme, where universities submit one dissertation from their ELT master's programmes and then judge them along with a panel of British Council experts, is designed to recognise and celebrate the brightest minds in ELT at master's level.
The Master's Dissertation Awards promote achievements of students on UK master's programmes for work with the best potential for impact on ELT. Find out which dissertations have won or received special commendations for this year and in previous years.
IntroductionFor twelve years the British Council has partnered with UK universities to find ELT master's dissertations with potential for impact on policy and practice. The scheme, where universities submit one dissertation from their ELT master's programmes and then judge them along with a panel of British Council experts, is designed to recognise and celebrate the brightest minds in ELT at ...
2019 - 2020 Awards All dissertations are available in pdf format below. Winning dissertation Page Wheeler from University College London for her dissertation: The Effect of vowel accuracy, visual speech, and iconic gesture on intelligibility.
Jan 8, 2024 · We are looking for master’s dissertations that provide new scholarly insight and/or offers a new policy direction and that make an original contribution to international relations. The prize recognises and promotes the achievements of students who completed their master’s programmes in international relations in the UK, in the academic year ...
The scheme, where universities submit one dissertation from their ELT Masters programmes which has already been marked at distinction level and then judge them along with a panel of British Council experts, is designed to recognise and celebrate the brightest minds in ELT at Masters level.
Jul 17, 2023 · Congratulations to Matt Gunton, one of our MA Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (Distance Learning) students. Matt's dissertation was entered by the School of Education into the British Council Masters Dissertation Awards, which promote achievements of students on UK Master's programmes for work with the best potential for impact on English Language Teaching policy and practice.
Jul 4, 2017 · Jon’s research looked at whether using the first language helped learners to retain new vocabulary. If you want to know more, a copy of Jon’s dissertation can be found on the British Council’s webpages. Congratulations to Jon as we know the competition was very fierce and he did remarkably well to be listed amongst the finalists.
2022-2023 Awards All dissertations are available to read in pdf format below. Winning Dissertation Mellidy Campbell-Lochrie, University of St Andrews A socio-political and cultural driven analysis of the representations of protected characteristics in UK-produced ELT textbooks, through the lens of the Equality Act (2010) Special Commendations Jack Duncan, Canterbury Christ Church University ...
We are delighted to announce that NILE's MA graduate Garry Hobbs is the joint winner of the prestigious British Council Master's Dissertation Award 2022 with his dissertation An Investigation into the Impact of Using Take-home Tests as an Assessment for Learning Strategy on Young Learners' English Language Learning Motivation in a Private Thai Language School.