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 Mar

Coronavirus (COVID-19) – NCELP materials

We know that all teachers are working very hard to manage the impact on their pupils and schools in these difficult times. We have made some updates to the Resource...

30 Mar

NCELP Y7 Schemes of Work Terms 1 and 2 released

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...

13 Mar

Rachel Hawkes presents at ALL Language World 2020

Rachel Hawkes presented “When less is definitely more: integrating planned and spontaneous target language use with content teaching” at the annual Association for Language Learning Conference in Manchester on 13...

3 Mar

NCELP launches its first assessments

NCELP has launched its first assessments, which are fully compatible with the Year 7 Schemes of Work for French, Spanish and German. The tests assess both receptive and productive language...

28 Feb

Successful NCELP Residential 3

Specialist teachers attended the third NCELP Residential in York on 27-28 February, developing their knowledge of KS2 Grammar, KS2 Transition, and the principles of assessment of phonics, vocabulary and grammar. In...

26 Feb

David Shanks presents at ALL Yorkshire Series: Session 5

David Shanks presented ‘Vocabulary: What’s in a word?’ at the fifth of a series of 5 sessions for ALL (Association for Language Learning) at King Edward VII School, Sheffield today...