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Figure 1. Artwork by Siouxsie, a teenager with intersecting language and mental health difficulties. © Siouxsie Webster.

Supporting the mental health needs of children with language and literacy difficulties

Professor Mark Boyes, Curtin enAble Institute, spotlights mental health in the context of language and literacy difficulties, including the urgent need for accessible mental health interventions.
LBS Activities Using Momotaro. From Sorting to Retelling, assessing literacy skills for EFL learners

Teaching and assessing literacy using a balanced approach: Effects of can-do self-assessment on early...

Following the January and July 2023 issues, Emiko Izumi from the School of Education & Graduate School of Education at Kwansei Gakuin University discusses the content and results of her collaborative research on the teaching and assessment of reading and writing for early English as foreign language (EFL) learners in Japan.

Furthering elementary English education in Japan

Developing task design and evaluation to foster students’ competence and autonomy in elementary English education in Japan: Focusing on Can-Do and Performance Assessments.
children learning in a classroom

Is the reading crisis associated with an academic language crisis?

Educators across the globe are trying to solve the reading crisis. Efforts to improve 4th-grade reading scores seem to intensify every year, but improvements are rarely observed. Could it be that efforts need to target academic language?
oral storytelling, a mother reading to a young child, Academic language

Oral storytelling is important for reading, writing and social wellbeing

If there was one skill that could positively impact many other areas such as reading, writing, and social development, wouldn’t you want to teach it? Could oral storytelling be the key?

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