Rachel 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 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 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 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…
Read MoreToday we held a one-day research CPD event for NCELP Specialist Teachers (from our Lead Schools). The aims of the day were for teachers: To feel more confident about distinguishing ‘peer-reviewed’ research from other uses of the word ‘research’. To learn about some research into classroom practice, in order to begin to understand (a) the…
Read MoreWe’re hosting ‘An introduction to NCELP’ online conference on Friday 20 November, 09:00-15:30. You will be able to join language teachers from all over the country to learn about NCELP’s research-informed MFL teaching approaches and resources. Our new Key Stage 3 schemes of work are free, Ofsted-aligned and available for French, German and Spanish. They…
Read MoreEmma Marsden and Rachel Hawkes, NCELP Director and Co-Director respectively, presented at the Inside Government National Modern Foreign Languages Conference 2020 on 7 October 2020. Emma’s keynote gave a snapshot of NCELP’s activities including CPD & resources, she highlighted the alignment between NCELP & Ofsted’s Framework, talked about making grammar matter through reading & listening…
Read MoreLaurence Anthony (Waseda University) and members of the NCELP team – Natalie Finlayson, Emma Marsden, Rachel Hawkes and Nick Avery – presented the paper: ‘Extending vocabulary profiling to languages other than English’ at the Japan Association for English Corpus Studies (JAECS) 46th Annual Conference, 3-4 October 2020. From the abstract: “…In this presentation, we will…
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