An International Research Society for Children's Literature (IRSCL) Honour Book for 2023
This book is a comprehensive and thorough introduction to children's and young adult …

This paper explores the demanding and complex nature of English language teaching with
young learners. The paper begins with the challenges of the young learner classroom, then …

Both language and content are involved in all holistic, content-based approaches to
language education with young learners. This chapter argues that waiting until children are …

This article provides a microscopic view of learners' first encounters with multimodal texts in
their primary EFL classrooms. It is argued that multimodal texts create opportunities for …

Reports about apparent declines in reading continue to gain attention, playing into social
anxieties about literacy and the state of education. In this article, we examine concerns …

Children who are learning English as an additional language (EAL) need opportunities to
learn English in playful, engaging ways. Nursery rhymes offer an effective forum to explore a …

This paper considers ideological dimensions of language education, and the contribution
picturebooks narrating diversity and illustrating minority perspectives can make to this …

The distinctive fact about the learning of English as a foreign language by young learners is
that they have no immediate need to use English and therefore no need to learn it, with the …

Drama in the language classroom is like a magical box of tools; the more you take out of it,
the more you find inside for future use. I have observed hundreds of primary-school lessons …

Rhymes are generally considered as appropriate young learner materials in terms of
language learning and teaching. This article reports on the findings of a comparative study …