L1-Educational Studies in Language and Literature

L1-Educational Studies in Language and Literature

http://www.ilo.uva.nl/development/L1EducationResearch/

Publisher: IAIMTE

L1 - Educational Studies in Language and Literature offers an international
forum for research and discussion on first-language (L1)/mother-tongue
teaching and learning.

The journal defines language education as mother-tongue education, the
teaching of the standard language or national language education. It deals,
for instance, with the common issues of the teaching of French in France and
Belgium to francophones, English in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong to
anglophones and Spanish in Spain and Argentina to `hispanophones', Catalan
in Catalonia. 

The Journal furthermore deals with L1-education primarily, although very
aware of the circumstance that in most learning groups in the world,
students are bilingual. Second-language teaching and learning issues will be
dealt with in an integrative manner.

Divided as we are by our distinct languages and cultures, we share a common
concern: the quality of the teaching and learning of language and literature
in L1. Throughout the world, education systems face major challenges.
Societal demands for literacy and communicative competence increase while at
the same time, school populations become ever more culturally and
linguistically diverse. In response to these trends, many countries have
examples of promising research and development in the learning and teaching
of mother-tongue education....in splendid isolation.

We argue that national work in the improvement of language education can
profit enormously from international exchange. Hence, this journal aims to
create an international forum for research and discussion on the teaching
and learning of language and literature.

L1-education ranges from kindergarten to adult education. It encompasses the
learning of the written code and the teaching of oracy. Grammar and
communication, literature and functional writing, vocabulary and critical
reading: the scope of L1 - Educational Studies in Language and Literature is
comprehensive. Within this vast area, L1 - Educational Studies in Language
and Literature tries to promote theoretically grounded and empirically
informed educational improvement.

ISSN 1567-6617

Manuscript submission via online system.

Editors-in-Chief:
 
Gert Rijlaarsdam
the Netherlands

Mary Kooy
Canada

L1 Office
Graduate School on Teaching and Learning
Wibautstraat 2-4
1091 GM Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Tel: +31 20 5251288, fax 1290 
Email: 

L1-Educational Studies in Language and Literature is available free of charge as 
an Open Access journal on the Internet.

Volumes 1-5 also available to subscribers at:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/1573-1731/

Articles available in PDF format.

Current Issue: 2006, Volume 6 No. 3

Date: 4 January 2007