Creating welcoming learning environments : using creative arts methods in language classrooms / Jane Andrews and Maryam Almohammad., editor.

Includes index.

Introduction: connecting creative arts approaches with supporting children and young people developing English as an additional language -- The well in welcoming -- Working with community filmmaking in multilingual and intercultural language education -- Celebration through film -- A filmmaking project -- Creating together- the role of creative arts in an ESOL classroom -- Working with children's needs and preferences using creative techniques -- Assessing children's language using creative techniques -- Building cohesion in school through crafting -- Adinkra creative links-music and textile in welcoming learning environments -- Working with adinkra symbols and printing-unlocking creativity in children -- A school radio station -- Singing songs from Jamaica in early years settings and primary schools in South Gloucestershire -- Audio in school- school languages on the Tannoy system -- A conversation with Tawona Sitholé, poet and musician -- Creative arts processes for working with EAL children -- GCSE English, using poetry written in students' first languages -- The welcome banner: cultural exchange through creative collaboration -- Creativity, collaboration and ways forward for EAL learners.