Volume 1 | Issue 1 | May 2013 |
Article 1 – The World Turned Upside Down
Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak and Mateusz Marecki discuss the theoretical, educational and creative aspects of an alternate history creative writing project with young adults, based on Terry Pratchett’s fantasy novel Nation (2008). read more
Article 2 – From Reading Pictures to Understanding a Story
Annett Kaminski considers the impact of pictures on children’s understanding of a story during their first encounter with the picturebook The Smartest Giant in Town in a study with children in a German primary school. read more
Article 3 – Humanizing Teaching English to Young Learners with Children’s Literature
Irma Ghosn recommends the use of high quality children’s fiction in the young learner classroom to advance the broader social intent of language education and humanize it, while enriching language learning. read more
Article 4 – Toward Language Bridging in a Multilingual Classroom
Urmishree Bedamatta introduces nonsense texts like children’s rhymes and folk rhymes and riddles in the curricular content of language as a bridging subject in India. The paper discusses theoretical perspectives of language awareness, language play and the theories of nonsense. read more
Article 5 – Response to the The Lost Thing
Sandie Mourão discusses teenage EFL students’ responses to the picturebook The Lost Thing (Tan, 2000) and its film (2010) in a secondary school in Portugal. The aim was to foster students’ appreciation of the visual during their interpretative discussions as well as developing their English language skills. read more