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.

12 Feb

Emma Marsden presents on Grammar at ALL winter series: Session 4

Emma Marsden presented ‘Grammar’ at the fourth of a series of 5 sessions for ALL (Association for Language Learning) at King Edward VII School, Sheffield today (12 February 2020). This...

3 Feb

NCELP audio screencasts

NCELP have produced audio screencasts on Phonics, Vocabulary, Grammar, NCELP scheme of work development and the new Ofsted Framework and NCELP. These CPD training materials will benefit anyone outside of...

23 Jan

Rachel Hawkes presents at ALL Yorkshire Series: Session 3

Rachel Hawkes presented ‘How does explicity phonics teaching make a difference?’ at the third of a series of 5 sessions for ALL (Association for Language Learning) at King Edward VII...

20 Jan

Upcoming events

NCELP sessions at upcoming external event(s): Grammar, Emma Marsden, 12 February 2020, King Edward II School, Sheffield (part of the ALL Winter Series) Vocabulary, David Shanks, 26 February 2020, King Edward...

16 Jan

Nick Avery and Stephen Owen present at ALL Yorkshire Series: Session 2

Nick Avery and Stephen Owen presented at the second of a series of 5 sessions for ALL (Association for Language Learning) at King Edward VII School, Sheffield today (Thursday 16...

10 Jan

NCELP Schemes of Work launched today

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...