Category: Events

Dr Heike Krüsemann, NCELP Resource Developer, presented an introduction to NCELP to ITT trainees and mentors at the National Modern Languages SCITT on 9 March 2021. Download An Introduction to NCELP presentation.

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…

Rachel 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…

Heike 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)

Rachel 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…

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…