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.

12 Jun

Work of NCELP mentioned in ALL

The work of NCELP is publicised on the Association for Language Learning (ALL) website. ALL is an independent registered charity and is the UK’s major subject association for those involved in...

6 Jun

Upcoming events

Emma Marsden will be giving an invited plenary about NCELP and OASIS at the Annual Chinese Teaching Conference 2019 at the Confucius Institute UCL IoE, 14th June 2019. Emma Marsden will be giving a keynote...

30 May

Emma Marsden presents at the Cognitive Benefits of Bilingualism Symposium at the British Academy

Emma Marsden presented the work of NCELP at the Cognitive Benefits of Bilingualism Symposium at the British Academy yesterday (29 May 2019). Preview and download the presentation: Linking research and...

24 May

NCELP Resource Portal launched

Today sees the launch of the NCELP Resource Portal, an open, searchable, and sustainable database for materials supporting language learning and teaching, particularly in the areas of vocabulary, phonics, grammar, meaningful...