Editorial introduction.

Unsworth, Len ; Buckland, Corinne

This volume of AJLL is titled Challenging Pedagogies: Engaging ESL Students in Intellectual Quality, and is the second of our 'themed' issues. This issue was co-ordinated by Associate Professor Jenny Hammond from the University of Technology, Sydney, bringing together a distinguished team of contributors from Australia and from the US, maintaining AJLL as a significant national and international forum for the dissemination of literacy education research. The special separate introduction to the themed issue sets out the overarching framework that links the individual articles and provides the background context to the work presented.

We encourage proposals from teams of authors for such themed issues of AJLL and look forward to your response to these.