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.

30 Nov

Rachel Hawkes presents at the 4th Northern Primary Languages Show

Rachel Hawkes presented at the 30th Northern Primary Languages Show, organised by Steven Fawkes from the Association for Language Learning (ALL), and held at York St John University on Saturday...

28 Nov

Rachel Hawkes presents at ALL Yorkshire Series: Session 1

Rachel Hawkes presented at the first of a series of 5 sessions for ALL (Association for Language Learning) at Kind Edward VII School, Sheffield, on Thursday 28 November 2019. The...

27 Nov

Rachel Hawkes presents at the PiXL Languages Conference

Rachel Hawkes, Co-Director of NCELP, presented to 600 teachers from 580 schools at the 27th PiXL Languages Conferences, held at Kia Oval, London on 27 November 2019. The presentation, entitled...

18 Nov

Rachel Hawkes presents at The Language Show, London, 16.11.19

Rachel Hawkes gave two presentations at The Language Show, Olympia, London on Saturday 16 November 2019. Session 1: Vocabulary: what’s in a word? Every languages teacher knows that vocabulary teaching...

6 Nov

Upcoming events

NCELP sessions at upcoming external event(s): NCELP Scheme of Work Development, Stephen Owen/ Nicholas Avery, 16 January 2020, King Edward II School, Sheffield (part of the ALL Winter Series) How...

5 Nov

NCELP on panel to review content for MFL GCSEs

Emma Marsden (NCELP Director), Rachel Hawkes (NCELP Co-Director) and David Shanks (NCELP Research Specialist) will be on the panel to review the content for Modern Foreign Languages GCSEs. Review of subject content...