Volume 12 | Issue 1 | May 2024 |
The editorial for issue 12.1 attempts to explain the positioning of Children’s Literature in English Language Education with its interconnecting location between research interests, related to but distinct from other well-established research areas and key journals. read more
The first article details an endeavour to answer the call for all educators to promote sustainability. Brock’s paper outlines a teacher education sequence in an English course at a Swedish university. The four activities illustrated aimed for sustainability competence through picturebooks. read more
The focus of this study was to examine the peritextual information as well as the insider/outsider status of the book creators of Chinese and Chinese American nonfiction picturebooks, aiming to evaluate the authentic quality of multicultural nonfiction picturebooks. read more
The authors detail an action research project in a Swiss school around the graphic novel adaptation of Anthony Horowitz’s Stormbreaker. The project provided language learners with opportunities to show their potential through their own creative adaptations of the spy story. read more
This report describes a study conducted in a 9th grade English class, which addresses how literary texts about the First World War opened spaces for the life skills of critical thinking and empathy in an English language classroom in a lower secondary school in Norway. read more
With the help of Chris Wormell’s picturebook, The Big Ugly Monster and the Little Stone Rabbit, this contribution illustrates how drama can be combined with text-based generative AI tools to benefit young English learners’ critical AI literacy development. read more
Jocelyn Wright reviews Rehumanizing the Language Curriculum, edited by Megan Echevarría (2023). read more
Introduced by Alyssa Lowery, the chosen recommended reads comprise of narratives that sensitively bear witness to the historical and contemporary tragedies that affect millions while fulfilling the societal expectation that children’s literature must offer optimism and hope. read more