March 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…
Read MoreThe University of York has been awarded government funding to launch England’s first modern foreign languages (MFL) centre for excellence. The Centre for Excellence – backed by £2.17m, with potential for this funding to be extended up to £4.8m – will coordinate the work of 45 MFL hub schools all over the country to promote…
Read MoreThe new National Centre for Excellence for Language Pedagogy (NCELP) came into being today. The Centre is funded, initially for two years, by the Department for Education (DfE) to take forward the recommendations of the Teaching School Council’s ‘Modern Foreign Languages Pedagogy Review‘. Read more: About the Centre Teaching School Council’s Modern Foreign Languages Report…
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