Rachel 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 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…
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 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 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.…
Read MoreNCELP 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 use for each strand of NCELP pedagogy (phonics, vocabulary and grammar) up to the end of Term 2.1. The assessments have been developed using Qualtrics, an…
Read MoreSpecialist 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 addition they shared resources created within their hubs, discussed Schemes of Work (SOW) developments and planned the programmes for their second hub conferences, due to…
Read MoreDavid 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 (Wednesday 26 February 2020). This final session focused on key MFL Pedagogy Review recommendations for teaching vocabulary, research-informed practice and explore the following questions: ·…
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