IATBLT AWARDS
IATBLT members are invited to nominate individuals who have made outstanding and sustained contributions to the field of task-based language education (research, teaching, assessment, materials development, etc.).
The winner of the award will be presented with an award of €1000 (funded independently by the IATBLT vzw) and a certificate at the next biennial conference of IATBLT.
Distinguished Practitioner Award
IATBLT members are invited to nominate individuals who have made outstanding and sustained contributions to the field of TBLT in practice. The winner of the award will be presented with an award of €1000 (funded independently by the IATBLT) and a certificate at the next biennial conference of IATBLT.
The recipient will be selected on the basis of:
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Outstanding professional leadership in the advancement of TBLT in practice
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Inspirational and/or valuable contribution to practice through publications/resources
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Mentoring of other practitioners
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Active engagement in and/or service to the TBLT community.
This award is given biennially for an article that makes a significant contribution to the field of task-based language teaching (TBLT). Members of IATBLT vzw may nominate articles published in refereed journals or as book chapters published in the the two years before the next conference.
The winner will be presented with an award of €500 (funded independently by the IATBLT vzw) and a certificate at the next biennial conference of IATBLT.
Underrepresented Scholar
Award
IATBLT members are invited to apply who are residents in a “low-income” or in a “low-middle-income economy” country (please look up your country in the World Bank classification of economies) and have had an abstract accepted for presentation at the 9th International Conference on Task-based Language Teaching in Innsbruck. The Executive Board will select up to two award recipients who will receive complimentary registration to the conference.
2021 Award winners
2021 TBLT Distinguished Achievement Award
2021 Best Article Award
The Executive Board of the International Association for Task-Based Language Teaching is pleased to award the IATBLT Distinguished Achievement Award 2019 to Professor Rod Ellis.
Michel, M., Murakami, A., Alexopoulou, T., & Meurers, D. (2019). Effects of task type on morphosyntactic complexity across proficiency. Instructed Second Language Acquisition, 3(2). https://doi.org/10.1558/isla.38248
Watch IATBLT President Martin East presenting the awards
If you are a IATBLT member, you can watch more of the conversation between Martin East and Rod Ellis in our members-only part of the website