We are delighted to announce that Gaming Grammar, our digital game designed to support foreign language grammar teaching and learning, is freely available to all as an App on Apple and Android devices as well as via web browser. The game teaches grammar through listening and reading practice called form-meaning mapping, a research-based teaching approach…
Read MoreRachel Hawkes presented at the Association for Language Learning (ALL) London webinar held on 12 December 2020. Making practice meaningful Meaningful practice activities provide an element of language control whilst compelling students to making meaningful choices when carrying them out. The session examined the principles of task design and explored a wide range of examples…
Read MoreRachel Hawkes presented at the Association for Language Learning (ALL) London webinar held on 5 December 2020. Culture and cultural capital in the language classroom Most (all?!) teachers would say that language and culture are linked, and you can’t teach one without the other. What do we mean when we say this? What is culture…
Read MoreToday marks the two year anniversary of the start of NCELP. In that time we have achieved: a fully open and accessible portal brimful of resources, tests, and schemes of work; hundreds of hours of professional development and presentations; suites of videoed lessons available to every child and teacher; a digital game; OASIS summaries; a lexical…
Read More‘An Introduction to NCELP’ – online conference held on 20 November 2020 Over 200 language teachers from all over England came together on 20 November to learn about our research-informed MFL teaching approaches and resources. Feedback from attendees “Really well organised, engaging and easy to follow with a lot of effort put in from teachers.…
Read MoreResearch showing how teaching the grammar of the first language (English) can help oral production in the second (French), by Kevin McManus and Emma Marsden, has won the ACTFL-NFMLTA/MLJ Paul Pimsleur Award for Research in Foreign Language Education. View the freely available OASIS summary View the full article
Read MoreHeike Krüsemann delivered a one hour online session for initial teacher training (ITT) PGCE Secondary Education (Modern Foreign Languages) students, at the Institute of Education, University of Reading on 15 November 2020. Download the presentation: Introduction to NCELP (link to Resource Portal)
Read MoreRachel Hawkes presented at The Language Show on 13 November 2020 to an online audience of language teachers. Revisiting the three Ps: presentation, practice and production – 13 November 2020, 4-4.45pm. This session is based on reflections after two years of work with NCELP (National Centre for Excellence for Language Pedagogy) and includes 10 practical…
Read MoreMultiLingProfiler, a lexical profiling tool for French, German and Spanish, developed by NCELP in partnership with Prof. Laurence Anthony (Waseda University) has been launched. The tool ‘profiles’ texts to show the proportion of the 2,000 most frequent word families that are contained in them. This means that for any given text (such as a…
Read MoreRachel Hawkes presented ‘Strengthening the pillar of grammar (Grammar @KS2)’ at the Association for Language Learning (ALL) Primary Languages Conference 2020, on Saturday 17 October 2020. Rachel talked about how we help children build up their grammatical knowledge in a sequential and systematic way, which fits with their developing English literacy. She suggested ways of…
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