Volume 2 | Issue 2 | November 2014 |
Article 1 – Compelling Comprehensible Input, Academic Language and School Libraries
Stephen Krashen and Janice Bland discuss the pivotal role of certified librarians and school libraries for the introduction of compelling reading in a foreign language, such as EFL worldwide and ELLs in the US, as well as compelling reading in children’s heritage languages. read more
Article 2 – The Page IS The Stage: From Picturebooks to Drama with Young Learners
Carol Serrurier-Zucker and Euriell Gobbé-Mévellec examine the close links between drama and picturebooks, foreign language learning and theatre. A task-based project shows how picturebooks can be dramatized with young learners. read more
Article 3 – From Picturebook to Multilingual Collage
Emma McGilp introduces a bilingual, multilingual picturebook project with a small group of children learning English as an additional language (EAL) at a pre-school in Scotland. read more
Article 4 – Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are as an Example of Teaching Visual Literacy
Marian Krueger demonstrates how today’s visual culture requires students to be visually literate, to be able to deal with visual images both receptively (comprehending and interpreting) and productively (creating and producing). read more
Recommended Venues
Cara Bartels-Bland describes walking through the wardrobe in Oxford’s Story Museum. read more
Recommended Reads
McKee, David (1982). I Hate My Teddy Bear.
Burgess, Melvin (2013). The Hit.
Lewis, Ali (2011). Everybody Jam.
Shimura, Takako (2011). Wandering Son. read more
Book Reviews
Alan Pulverness reviews Journeys through Wordless Narratives: An International Enquiry with Immigrant Children and ‘The Arrival’ (Evelyn Arizpe, Teresa Colomer and Carmen Martinez-RoldánVisual, 2014).
Geoff Hall reviews Children’s Literature and Learner Empowerment: Children and Teenagers in English Language Education (Janice Bland, 2013). read more