Language Driven Pedagogy

Building on the success of England’s first MFL Centre for Excellence, the National Centre for Excellence for Language Pedagogy (NCELP), we continue the successful partnership between The University of York and The Cam Academy Trust to sustain our approach of strong partnership between academic research and teaching practice for translating educational research into effective classroom practice.

We provide a comprehensive programme of CPD showing how the recommendations from the MFL Pedagogy Review (2016) can be operationalised through a language-led, knowledge-rich and practice-based curriculum, whereby the three language knowledge strands: phonics, vocabulary and grammar underpin the development of confident communication, cultural understanding and creative use of language.  

• Aligned with the MFL Pedagogy Review are both the new subject content for GCSE French, German and Spanish and the Ofsted languages research review. 
• An extensive suite of freely available classroom resources accompany our CPD, in the form of schemes of work and lesson materials for French, German and Spanish at KS2, KS3 and KS4

The National Centre for Excellence for Language Pedagogy (NCELP) was set up in December 2018. Working in partnership with university researchers, teacher educators and expert practitioners, and Specialist Teachers in Leading Schools across the country, with the aim to improve language curriculum design and pedagogy, leading to a higher take up and greater success at GCSE.

The Centre was funded by the Department for Education (DfE) and co-directed by The University of York and The Cam Academy Trust.

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