In a move to encourage and acknowledge professionalism within the Australian ELICOS sector, English Australia and Pearson jointly offer an annual award for professional practice in ELICOS. The Award for Contribution to Professional Practice is awarded to the person whose paper, accepted for and presented at the annual English Australia Conference, best meets the specified criteria.
English Australia thanks Pearson for its generous and ongoing support of this Award.
Those successfully submitting an abstract for the academic program of the 2025 English Australia Conference will be invited to submit an essay of 2000-2500 words for consideration for the 2025 award. The paper should elaborate on the topic of the author’s conference presentation.
For more information contact [email protected] at English Australia.
The winner receives: a trophy; profiling on the English Australia website; and use of the English Australia award winner logo on their email signature. They will be presented with their Award at the 2025 English Australia Conference Gala Dinner taking place at 28 August in Brisbane.
The winner’s paper and presentation will demonstrate that they have reflected on their practice as an ELICOS teacher and have identified a number of useful and practical solutions to a particular issue.
Criteria for the award are that the paper (2000-2500 words):
Gabriel Azpilcueta, ELICOS Teacher and Academic Integrity and Assessment Officer, University of Adelaide English Language Centre for his essay ‘The Academic Integrity Ambassador Program’.
Gabriel’s winning essay entitled ‘The Academic Integrity Ambassador Program’ outlines the University of Adelaide English Language Centre’s Academic Integrity Ambassador Program, which has been championed by Gabriel. The Program is a peer-led initiative that promotes ethical awareness among international students and positions them as active leaders in shaping a culture of integrity. Gabriel’s winning paper reflects on the program’s development, implementation and early outcomes, and considers future directions for broader application across the ELICOS sector. It outlines the active learning principles and at the heart of the program and how English language skills development has been embedded.
2024 – Liam Ho, ELICOS Teacher, Monash College
2023 – Vicky Chang, CQU English Melbourne
2022 – Karen Tanizaka Pellegrino, English Language Teacher, CQU English
2021 – Denise Flipo, Teacher Trainer and Assessment Developer, RMIT English Worldwide
2020 – Marija Dedic & Joanne Madden, ELICOS teachers, Monash College
2019 – Agnes Bodis, UNSW College
2018 – Sarah Wilson, Monash College
2017 – Melinda Gamlen, Adelaide University English Language Centre
2016 – Sandra Caon-Parsons & Paula Dimmell, The University of Adelaide ELC
2015 – Jose Lara & Lesley Speer, Macquarie University English Language Centre
2014 – Vicki Bos, ICTE-UQ, QLD
2013 – Karen Benson, Julijana Stepanova & Amanda Eads – Strathfield College
2012 – Barbara Craig & Sandra Pitronaci – Macquarie University English Language Institute
2011 – Juliana Kendi – La Trobe Melbourne
2010 – Peter Copeman – University of Canberra
2009 – Ian Johnson – Griffith English Language Institute
2008 – Andrew Foley – South Australian College of English
2007 – Denise Norton – Deakin University English Language Institute
