Today sees the launch of the NCELP Resource Portal, an open, searchable, and sustainable database for materials supporting language learning and teaching, particularly in the areas of vocabulary, phonics, grammar, meaningful practice, corrective feedback in interaction, and motivation. All NCELP resources are evidence-based and underpinned by peer-reviewed research and especially draw on the recommendations of the…
Read MoreRachel Hawkes, co-director of NCELP, spoke at Language World, the ALL (Association for Language Learning) annual conference this weekend. In her plenary, she focused on the recommendations of the Pedagogy Review and their relevance to the new Ofsted Framework. Unpacking some of the core recommendations for phonics, vocabulary and grammar, she gave specific examples of NCELP’s approach…
Read MoreRachel Hawkes, co-director of NCELP spoke today at the launch of a new campaigning group: Language Analysis in Schools: Education and Research (LASER). Rachel spoke about NCELP’s approach to FL pedagogy that is both research-led and practice-informed, taking into account the time-poor context of UK curriculum FL learning. She focused on the recent MFL Pedagogy Review…
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