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 for Excellence for Language Pedagogy (NCELP) will help the centre extend the reach of its work to promote pioneering teaching and encourage more pupils to…
Read MoreNCELP 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. Please feel free to forward to your networks. Year 8 scheme of work ‘overview’ for French, German, Spanish. This two-page document summarises the key specifications…
Read MoreThe 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 where the target audience were schools local to them who have been involved peripherally with NCELP in some way. We decided to move to a…
Read MoreNCELP 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 launched as an online service to help teachers and families access educational materials during the school closures. The Government have committed funds for this online…
Read MoreRachel 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.
Read MoreTwo 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 Aids – BBC Teach: 1. Making phonics an indispensable tool in language learning (KS3). Jenny Hopper (NCELP Specialist Teacher), Sir William Borlase’s Grammar School 2.…
Read MoreWe have prepared Resources Logs and Language Guides that are suitable for learners in their first couple of years of learning French, German or Spanish. Each Resources Log (Excel spreadsheet) contains links to a full two-lesson resource; individually split phonics, vocabulary and grammar resources; the quizlet vocabulary set for each week; weekly audio vocabulary learning…
Read MoreWe 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 Portal to reflect the change in practice arising from school closure. Two new pages are available from the home page of both our main NCELP…
Read MoreNCELP 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 within a low exposure foreign language setting. This latest version takes on board feedback from NCELP network schools and includes Y7 Terms 1 and 2.…
Read MoreRachel 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 March 2020. The workshop focused on the decisions that inform teacher and student use of the target language and English in secondary foreign language classrooms.…
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