Description

This is the Guest edition that focuses on literature and culture in relation to EAL. Recent research reveals the pressing need to find ways to develop academic language and deep word knowledge in bilingual learners (Vazquez, 2010).

The papers presented here indicate that in studying texts from an intercultural perspective and through a range of mediums, EAL learners can start to empathise and understand the musicality of different varieties of language and understand both the local and global in acts of reading (Macleroy, 2013).

Contents

View from the Chair (page 2)
Yvonne Foley

Editorial: Literature, Culture and EAL (page 3)
Vicky Macleroy

To what extent can the planned use of humour positively affect the attitudes and achievement of early stage secondary EAL students? (page 4)
Ian Southorn

Including English as an additional language (EAL) students in Spoken Word Education (page 13)
Cat Brogan

Arabic is the Language of Heaven: Motivation, Identity and Communities of Practice amongst Muslim Heritage Arabic L2 Learners (page 22)
Rowan Salim

Culture, Language, Learning and Social Integration (page 30)
Stuart Scott

Identity texts and their pedagogical use in the kindergarten (page 34)
Evi Kompiadou