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.

23 Feb

Cultural Collection

A new collection, useful for teachers wishing to see how and where cultural content is integrated into the NCELP Schemes of work.

1 Feb

Upcoming events

Discover upcoming NCELP events and keynotes and presentations by NCELP team members at sector-wide events and conferences.

1 Feb

Year 7 Term 2 achievement tests

We are pleased to release updated versions of our Year 7 Term 2 achievement tests. The test is designed to assess students’ knowledge of a principled sample of phonics, vocabulary,...

18 Jan

Year 8 Term 2 achievement tests

We are pleased to release the Year 8 Term 2 assessments. If you are following the NCELP Schemes of Work, the ‘assessment week’ is Week 4 of Term 2.1. The...