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.

29 Jul

Funding boost for modern foreign languages centre

The University of York has been awarded £1.45m of government funding to continue its work to support foreign language teaching in schools. The extension funding for the University’s National Centre...

17 Jul

NCELP Year 8 schemes of work published

NCELP is pleased to share news relating to our Year 7 and 8 schemes of work. All of the documents below are now freely available on the NCELP Resource Portal....

8 Jul

NCELP Hub Day Webinar – session recordings available

The NCELP Hub Day Webinar was hosted on behalf of the Hubs on Friday 3 July 2020. The original events schedule outlined each NCELP Lead School hosting a physical event...

7 Jul

New collaboration with the Oak National Academy

NCELP teachers are videoing lessons using NCELP resources that will be used by thousands of pupils every day via the Oak National Academy online website. The Oak National Academy was...

22 Jun

Rachel Hawkes presents at Online ALL London June Event

Rachel Hawkes presented at the Online Association for Language Learning (ALL) ‘The June Event’ on Saturday 20 June 2020. View the presentation on the NCELP Resource Portal.

18 May

NCELP Specialist Teachers on BBC Teach

Two NCELP Specialist Teachers have been interviewed for a new series of films by BBC Teach designed to promote evidence-based best practice methods for languages teaching at KS3. MFL Teaching...

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