Volume 4 | Issue 1 | May 2016 |
In the editorial, Cultural Identity in the Language Classroom, Janice Bland and Sandie Mourão introduce the theme of the articles: the valuing of children’s responses, whether in English or in the children’s home language(s), which may or may not be the majority language, and children’s right to ethnic self-esteem. read more
Grit Alter discusses two picturebooks about immigrant children’s experiences when arriving in new communities, The Name Jar and My Name is Yoon. The books are analysed in connection to assimilation ideology. read more
Sandie Mourão introduces and illustrates a typology of response for understanding how children respond to picturebooks in the primary context, and the relevance to teachers who want to (re)consider picturebooks in ELT. read more
Grit Bergner illustrates how Azzi in Between is shared as a bilingual experience in a primary ELT classroom in Germany to discuss issues of refugee children and asylum seekers. read more
Anthony Pavlik introduces Seven Stories – The National Centre for Children’s Books. read more
Ness, Patrick, illus. Jim Kay (2011). A Monster Calls.
Brown, Margaret Wise, illus. L. Weisgard (1949). The Important Book.
Crossan, Sarah (2012). The Weight of Water.
Silverstein, Shel (2010). The Giving Tree. read more
Chris Lima reviews Literature and Language Learning in the EFL Classroom (Masayiki Teranishi, Yoshifume Saito and Katie Wales (Eds), 2015). read more