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Our mission is to improve language curriculum design and pedagogy, leading to a higher uptake and greater success at GCSE.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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NCELP Resource Portal

Explore our open, searchable database of materials supporting language learning and teaching. All our resources are evidence-based and underpinned by peer-reviewed research. We especially draw on the recommendations of the ‘Review of MFL Pedagogy’ when creating materials.

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Latest news

15 Dec

Gaming Grammar available to all

Wendy Burns
We are delighted to announce that Gaming Grammar, our digital game designed to support foreign language grammar teaching and learning, is freely available to all as an App on Apple...
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14 Dec

Hawkes presents at ALL webinar, 12 Dec

Wendy Burns
Rachel Hawkes presented at the Association for Language Learning (ALL) London webinar held on 12 December 2020. Making practice meaningful Meaningful practice activities provide an element of language control whilst...
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7 Dec

Hawkes presents at ALL webinar, 5 December 2020

Wendy Burns
Rachel Hawkes presented at the Association for Language Learning (ALL) London webinar held on 5 December 2020. Culture and cultural capital in the language classroom Most (all?!) teachers would say...
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3 Dec

NCELP is two!

Wendy Burns
Today marks the two year anniversary of the start of NCELP. In that time we have achieved: a fully open and accessible portal brimful of resources, tests, and schemes of work;...
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23 Nov

Successful NCELP online conference

Wendy Burns
‘An Introduction to NCELP’ – online conference held on 20 November 2020 Over 200 language teachers from all over England came together on 20 November to learn about our research-informed...
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20 Nov

Research of NCELP Director has won Award

Wendy Burns
Research showing how teaching the grammar of the first language (English) can help oral production in the second (French), by Kevin McManus and Emma Marsden, has won the ACTFL-NFMLTA/MLJ Paul Pimsleur...
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Email: enquiries@ncelp.org

Tel: 01904 ​328159

National Centre for Excellence for Language Pedagogy (NCELP)
Department of Education,
University of York
,
Heslington,
York,
YO10 5DD, UK

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