CLELEjournal

Aims & Scope

CLELE JOURNAL – children´s literature in english language education is an international journal with articles to date from colleagues based in twenty-nine countries worldwide. This represents many different voices, ideological stances and research interests. Throughout all articles, however, a genuine and mutual concern for the wellbeing of children and young adults shines through, including not only their language development but also the many related educational gains that children’s literature in combination with language education can afford. These include social-emotional learning, critical literacy, perspective-taking, cognitive growth, visual literacy, and interculturality. Connected to this concern is the centrality of teacher education, which often features as an important research area for the authors of CLELE articles. The sharing of stories seems to generate magic, helping children’s horizons to shift, expand, and deepen. Listening to others’ voices in diverse and distantly set stories strengthens children’s evolving sense of self and emotional resilience, their multifaceted cultural and linguistic identities. Classroom reading time, like family reading time, strengthens bonds, while helping with the processing and even reframing of personal struggles.

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