LinguaTV short-listed for ELTons 2011 Award

The British Council has announced that LinguaTV is among the finalists for the ELTons 2011 International Award. Now in their ninth year, the awards, run by the British Council and sponsored by Cambridge ESOL, are a celebration of excellence in English language teaching (ELT) from around the world.

The famous “Cambridge ESOL International Award for Innovation” rewards new, innovative and useful products and services developed outside of the UK. It is offered only to outstanding new language learning products and services, which use innovative ideas to help learners achieve their goals, or to innovative research which has clear practical benefits for English language teaching. It is one among three distinctions that are awarded yearly by the prestigious British Council. The members of the jury have nominated only six finalists out of a large number of applicants. LinguaTV is the first German finalist of the ELTons since over three years.

The Online-Video Language Course “Business English” offers the opportunity to prepare yourself quickly and efficiently for communicating perfectly in English in day-to-day business situations. It covers the most important topics in areas such as marketing, distribution, personnel, purchasing, accounting and finance. At the heart of the course are professionally produced videos, which show how the English language is implemented by native speakers in authentic business situations. Participants will learn new vocabulary with practical relevance as well as how to correctly use and pronounce these terms. In addition to the videos, there is a wide range of interactive exercises, which help you to learn and retain your newly learnt vocabulary including correct spelling and listening comprehension skills. Those who take this course both improve their English communication skills and attain the necessary confidence to be able to put this into practice in real-life business situations. For more information about the award-winning language courses by LinguaTV please visit http://www.linguatv.com/p_Product/1/10046?lang=en

The winners of the ELTons 2011 Awards will be announced at a ceremony in central London on February 23rd 2011. Check out the full list of nominees online at www.britishcouncil.org/learning-eltons.

A free trial is available for visitors at http://www.LinguaTV.com/?lang=en to offer an insight into the various functions of this academically and technologically innovative online platform.

About LinguaTV
LinguaTV offers multimedia language and communications training programs. The relevant training videos are geared towards the specific needs of each business or the individual to create an efficient learning program. The platform includes extensive online webTV, entertaining videos, interactive games and social network community features such as study groups. LinguaTV was presented with the 2010 Comenius EduMedia Award as an “outstanding educational multimedia product” and in 2009 it won the prestigious United Nations worldwide best e-content “World Summit Award” in the category “E-learning and Education”. LinguaTV was rated by the Jury of the European MEDEA Awards 2009 as “highly commended” and was honoured with the German IPTV Award in 2008. LinguaTV GmbH was founded in 2006 and has its headquaters in Berlin. The team consists of experienced language trainers, multimedia experts, internet specialists and film makers.

About ELTons
The ELTons (British Council Innovation Awards) are offered to outstanding new language learning products and services, which use innovative ideas to help learners achieve their goals, or to innovative research which has clear practical benefits for English language teaching. For more information please visit http://www.britishcouncil.org/learning-eltons

About The British Council
The British Council is the UK’s international cultural relations body. Last year the British Council engaged face to face with 13.2 million people and reached 221 million. The British Council is a non-political organisation, working in over 100 countries worldwide to build engagement and trust for the UK through programmes which support intercultural dialogue, the UK’s creative and knowledge economies and help to tackle climate change. For more information visit www.britishcouncil.org

CONTACT:
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LinguaTV GmbH
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D-10249 Berlin / Germany
Phone: +49-(0)30-42802750
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E-Mail: press@linguatv.com
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