Volume 2 | Issue 1 | May 2014 |
Article 1 – Intertextuality and Intermediality in Philip Pullman’s Spring-Heeled Jack and in Kevin Brooks’ iBoy
Michael Prusse illustrates intertextuality and intermediality in Philip Pullman’s Spring-Heeled Jack and in Kevin Brooks’ iBoy. The author examines young adult novels that, with their superhero protagonists, are able to ‘entice teenage boys into reading’. read more
Article 2 – The Hunger Games: An Ecocritical Reading
Janice Bland and Anne Strotmann consider how Suzanne Collins’ dystopian trilogy, The Hunger Games, Catching Fire and Mockingjay, can motivate students to improve their language and literacy proficiency by extensive reading, while discovering anthropocentrism. read more
Article 3 – Close Reading Facilitates Exploration and Text Creation
Lindsey Moses offers ideas to enhance language and literacy experiences involving the reading and writing processes of young bilingual English Language Learners, using the informational text What Do You Do With a Tail Like This? as a mentor text. read more
Article 4 – From Flat Stanley to Flat Cat
Teresa Fleta and Elizabeth Forster describe a Flat Cat shared international project, demonstrating how such projects can support development in areas such as creativity and literacy, and promote intercultural and interlinguistic learning. read more
Article 5 – To Read or not to Read
Annika Kreft and Britta Viebrock discuss an extensive reading project. The authors show that reading is still an issue amongst many teenagers and that a young adult fiction project can affect learners, their reading motivation and related language skills in a positive way. read more
Article 6 – Intercultural Education, Picturebooks and Refugees
Anne Dolan uses the metaphor of windows and mirrors to explain how picturebooks can be a powerful vehicle in the classroom in terms of intercultural education for all learners, including those working through the medium of a second language. read more
Book Review
Michael Prusse reviews Kinder- und Jugendliteratur im Fremdsprachenunterricht (Emer O’Sullivan and Dietmar Rösler, 2013). read more