The IATEFL John Haycraft Classroom Exploration Scholarship

In 2006 Jane Willis and Corony Edwards won a British Council ELT Innovation award for their book Teachers Exploring Tasks in English Language Teaching and donated their award to finance a scholarship to the IATEFL Exeter Conference in 2008.  The interest in and quality of applications for this scholarship indicated that it should be offered annually.

International House kindly stepped in to 'adopt' this scholarship and there will now be two scholarships awarded annually.  The scholarship is named in memory of the founder of International House, John Haycraft.

The aim of the scholarship is to encourage teachers to embark on or to continue small-scale classroom exploration projects to shed light on learner/learner, learner/teacher aspects of the classroom language learning experience.

DEADLINE - June 5th 2009

We apologise that this year the deadline for application is very tight.

• Teachers interested in applying should submit a research outline with its rationale (between 400 and 500 words) to alison@iatefl.org by 5th June 2009.
• Applicants can enter projects already under way or planned for the academic year 09/10.
• A progress report or a final report on the work will be presented at IATEFL Harrogate 2010.
• Applicants should send a passport size photograph which will appear in the conference programme.
• A panel will select the winner by 3rd July 2009 so that they have time to plan their research over the coming academic year.

Selection Criteria

The project should be small-scale and classroom based.

The research topic should be suitable for its social and educational context.

Its objectives should be clearly defined and achievable.

The work should be original/innovative in some way.

The process and/or outcomes should be useful to other teachers/trainers.