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Contents

EDITORIAL | Children’s Literature … p 3

POLICY POSITION | EAL: More than Just Good Practice … p 6

LETTER FROM THE CHAIR | Leading the field … p 7

NEWS … pp 8-9

News from Wales | Jonathan Brentnall … p 8

RESEARCH SHORTS … pp 10-11

RIG REPORTS … pp 12-13

WORLD NEWS
SOUTH AFRICA | Nal’ibali: a multilingual success story | Viv Edwards … p 14
JAPAN | Migrant Children at Public Schools in Japan | Seiko Oyama … p 15
SOUTH EAST ASIA | Professional Networks for EAL in Southeast Asia … p 16

COVER FEATURE | Children’s Literature
Introduction … p 17
Why Children’s Literature Matters | Michael Rosen … pp 18-19
First Story | Dianne Excell … pp 20-21
The Poetry of Belonging | Sara Hirsch … pp 22-23
Writing from Damascus in England | Nadine Kaadan … pp 24-25
Beyond Bilingual Books | Diane Leedham … p 26
Working across different associations | Stuart Scott … p27
Multilingual representation in children’s literature | Vicky Macleroy … p 29

FAITH MATTERS | Rethinking the home learning of children from different faiths | Vally Lytra, Eve Gregory & Arani Ilankuberan … pp 30-31

LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT | Stories, Multilingualism & Language Development | Tracey Costley … pp 32-33

CHIILDREN’S LITERATURE | Finding Refuge in Books: Exploring Refugee Experiences in Children’s Literature | Farrah Serroukh .. pp 34-37

MY FAVOURITE BOOKS | Learners from two schools share their tips .. pp 38-39

THE LANGUAGE OF… | The Language of Literature | Paul Nancarrow … pp 41-43

TRIED AND TESTED | Developing Fluency in History as part of the Feedback Cycle | Ashley Bartlett … pp 44-46

COMMENT

TEACHER EDUCATION | The impact of master’s-level study in EAL on teacher-practitioners | Moira Brazil … p 47

EQUALITY | Schools are crucial to achieving university equality | Florentina Taylor … p 48

CHILDREN’S LITERATURE | Curiouser and curiouser | Dena Attar … p 49

ONLINE

Online Courses | Multilingual Learning for a Globalised World | Kamil Trzebiatowski … p 50
Multilingual resources … p 51

BOOKS

Multilingual Digital Storytelling: Engaging creatively and critically with literacy by Jim Anderson and Vicky Macleroy (eds) (Routledge, 2016) | Sam Legg … p 52

Navigating, Languages, Literacies and Identities: Religion in Young Lives by Lytra, Dinah Volk and Eve Gregory (eds) (Routledge, 2016) | Ambreen Shahriar … p 53

RESEARCH IN DEPTH | What does research tell us about using the first language as a pedagogical tool? | Hamish Chalmers … pp 54-58

THE LAST WORD | Progress and performance | Nicky Vangalis Stobbs … p 59

EDITOR | Robert Sharples

ASSOCIATE EDITORS | Carrie Cable | Hamish Chalmers | Catharine Driver | Diane Leedham | Constant Leung | Vicky Macleroy | Frank Monaghan | Victoria Murphy | Paul Nancarrow | Nandhaka Pieris | Kamil Trzebiatowski | Nicky Vangalis Stobbs | Manny Vazquez