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.

17 Sep

Successful NCELP Residential

The second NCELP residential took place at the University of Oxford on 6-7 September 2019. Once again, the two day residential brought together 18 Specialist Teachers with researchers, CPD providers...

2 Jul

Emma Marsden presents at ALL Initial Teacher Education and Training Summer Seminar, York St John

Emma Marsden presented to the Association for Language Learning’s (ALL) Initial Teacher Education and Training SIG on 2 July 2019 at York St John University. Download the presentation ‘NCELP: Linking...

2 Jul

Upcoming events

NCELP will be featured in the following event(s). National Modern Foreign Languages Conference 2019, 15th October 2019 in Central London. Emma Marsden will be giving an invited plenary on NCELP at the above...

19 Jun

Rachel Hawkes talks to languages teachers in Sussex about Phonics and Vocabulary

Rachel Hawkes presented to primary and secondary languages teachers at the Sussex Languages Conference today, with a focus on the key changes to teaching phonics and vocabulary. Download the presentations...