Contents

• GUEST EDITORIAL
  Challenging Pedagogies: Engaging ESL students in
  intellectual quality
  Jenny Hammond
  
• “This is as good as it gets”: Classroom lessons and learning
  in challenging circumstances
  Ken Johnston and Debra Hayes 
• Intellectual challenge and ESL students:
  Implications of quality teaching initiatives    
  Jennifer Hammond
• “It was taught good and I learned a lot”: Intellectual practices
  and ESL learners in the middle years
  Pauline Gibbons
• Literacy in history: Language and meaning
  Mary J. Schleppegrell, Stacey Greer and Sarah Taylor
• Talk, text, and knowledge in cumulative, integrated learning:
  A response to ‘intellectual challenge’    
  Peter Freebody, Karl Maton & J. R. Martin