Rachel Hawkes gave a presentation at the French Teachers’ Days, Institut Français, London on Saturday 5 October 2019. In this session she briefly reviewed motivation for language learning in the UK context then, leaving aside factors beyond teachers’ control, focused on the practical pedagogy and classroom factors that teachers can influence to increase the intrinsic motivation of…
Read MoreThe second NCELP residential took place at the University of Oxford on 6-7 September 2019. Once again, the two day residential brought together 18 Specialist Teachers with researchers, CPD providers and resource developers. Themes for the conference were the online digital game ‘Gaming Grammar’, using and balancing the target language and English in the classroom,…
Read MoreEmma Marsden presented to the Association for Language Learning’s (ALL) Initial Teacher Education and Training SIG on 2 July 2019 at York St John University. Download the presentation ‘NCELP: Linking research on language learning and teaching with classroom practice
Read MoreEmma Marsden presented at the National Association of Language Advisors annual conference, Stratford-Upon-Avon, 28th June 2019.
Read MoreRachel Hawkes presented to primary and secondary languages teachers at the Sussex Languages Conference today, with a focus on the key changes to teaching phonics and vocabulary. Download the presentations from the NCELP Resource Portal: Phonics Vocabulary
Read MoreRachel Hawkes presented the work of NCELP at the Association for Language Learning (ALL) London summer event at the Institut Français today. View the presentation on the NCELP Resource Portal.
Read MoreEmma Marsden gave an invited plenary about NCELP and OASIS at the Annual Chinese Teaching Conference 2019 at the Confucius Institute UCL IoE today.
Read MoreThe work of NCELP is publicised on the Association for Language Learning (ALL) website. ALL is an independent registered charity and is the UK’s major subject association for those involved in the teaching foreign languages at all levels. Read the article More about ALL
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…
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