NCELP – National Centre for Excellence for Language Pedagogy

About us

We work in partnership with university researchers, teacher educators and expert practitioners, and with 18 Specialist Teachers in nine Leading Schools across the country acting as language hubs, to improve language curriculum design and pedagogy.

Modern Foreign Language Pedagogy

The Centre is funded by the Department for Education (DfE) to take forward the recommendations of the ‘Review of MFL Pedagogy’ and support their implementation in schools.

Language Hubs

We drive, support, and monitor the work of a national collaborative network of Modern Foreign Language teachers and their schools to raise the standards of language teaching through the sharing of resources and good practice.

22 Jun

Rachel Hawkes presents at Online ALL London June Event

Rachel Hawkes presented at the Online Association for Language Learning (ALL) ‘The June Event’ on Saturday 20 June 2020. View the presentation on the NCELP Resource Portal.

18 May

NCELP Specialist Teachers on BBC Teach

Two NCELP Specialist Teachers have been interviewed for a new series of films by BBC Teach designed to promote evidence-based best practice methods for languages teaching at KS3. MFL Teaching...

1 Apr

NCELP MFL homeschooling materials

We have prepared Resources Logs and Language Guides that are suitable for learners in their first couple of years of learning French, German or Spanish. Each Resources Log (Excel spreadsheet)...

30 Mar

Coronavirus (COVID-19) – NCELP materials

We know that all teachers are working very hard to manage the impact on their pupils and schools in these difficult times. We have made some updates to the Resource...

30 Mar

NCELP Y7 Schemes of Work Terms 1 and 2 released

NCELP Schemes of Work are proposed as examples of how language knowledge and practice can be sequenced and re-visited systematically to support progression in the early stages of language development...

13 Mar

Rachel Hawkes presents at ALL Language World 2020

Rachel Hawkes presented “When less is definitely more: integrating planned and spontaneous target language use with content teaching” at the annual Association for Language Learning Conference in Manchester on 13...