Children's Literature in English Language Education Journal (CLELEjournal)

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Children’s Literature in English Language Education Editors: Janice Bland, Christiane Lütge and Sandie Mourão CLELEjournal is a new, bi-annual, comprehensively peer-reviewed online journal for scholars, teacher educators and practitioners involved in using and researching children’s literature in the field of English learning as a second, additional or foreign language. The journal investigates children’s literature as an art form, and as a framework with which to connect L2 literature teaching across the school years. The scope covers the affordances of children’s literature for L2 acquisition with pre-school infants through to young adults. CLELEjournal will consider contributions on all forms of children’s literature: fiction and non-fiction, oral storytelling and picturebooks, fairy tales and poetry, comics and graphic novels, educational drama and plays for children and young adults, children’s films and language learner literature. Contributions are solicited that cover the theory or practice of children’s literature in the English language classroom, encompassing the sharing of research projects and results, in-depth textual analysis and interpretation, teaching ideas as well as writing and adapting literature for second language education on any of the following topics: visual literacy critical literacy reader-response theory intercultural competence and ideology issues gender and diversity issues the constructions of childhood in children’s literature children’s literature and language play the canon of literary texts for TEFL teacher education, methodologies and materials design