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Read MoreEmma Marsden will be giving an invited plenary about NCELP and OASIS at the Annual Chinese Teaching Conference 2019 at the Confucius Institute UCL IoE, 14th June 2019. Emma Marsden will be giving a keynote talk about NCELP at the National Association of Language Advisors annual conference, Stratford-Upon-Avon, 28th June 2019. Emma Marsden will be giving a plenary to the National Modern Foreign…
Read MoreEmma Marsden presented the work of NCELP at the Cognitive Benefits of Bilingualism Symposium at the British Academy yesterday (29 May 2019). Preview and download the presentation: Linking research and language learning and teaching with classroom practice: The National Centre for Excellence for Language Pedagogy (NCELP)
Read MoreToday 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 MoreIn an ariticle published on the MULTILINGUALISM: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies (MEITS) website, Rachel Hawkes, Emma Marsden, Nick Avery, Rowena Kasprowicz and Robert Woore talk about NCELP’s approach to pedagogy and focus on each of the three pillars – phonics, vocabulary and grammar – and their resonance with language awareness approaches. NCELP aims to develop…
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 MoreMarch has focused on Phonics. Intensive resource and development work in this area has produced a suggested set of SSC (Symbol-sound correspondences) and a notional order for their teaching, based on the frequency with which they occur in the language, and their relative difficulty for L1 and other proficient English speakers. The choice of ‘source’ and…
Read MoreEmma Marsden, Director of NCELP, spoke at the AAAL (American Association for Applied Linguistics) 2019 Conference, 9-12 March 2019. In her plenary, she described and reflected on several open science initiatives being developed and used within applied linguistics, such as IRIS (Instruments for Research in Second Languages), OASIS (Open Accessible Summaries in Language Studies), the Centre for Open Science, pre-registered multi-site replication…
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…
Read MoreNCELP residential 1: 1-2 February 2019 Last weekend saw the first NCELP residential, which brought together specialist teachers and researchers. Themes for the conference were phonics, vocabulary, grammar and meaningful practice, central pillars of language pedagogy. NCELP is working to bring research and practice closer together. “I really enjoyed our first HUB residential and it…
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