Gain tools to write a short fiction book for the learners you teach

The webinar takes the form of a workshop during which participants will learn how to produce short fiction books (50 to 300 words) for the beginning-level adults they teach or tutor. After checking with participants about learners’ pleasure reading, the first half of the workshop focuses on practical tools for writing an engaging narrative for adults.

The second half is devoted to easy ways to linguistically simplify a text for readers with limited levels of literacy and beginning-level oral proficiency. The workshop wraps up with tips for adding images to a book.

Webinar leader

Martha Young-Scholten, Newcastle University professor emerita of SLA, now lives near Seattle, Washington, USA. She works on uninstructed adults’ L2 acquisition of morphosyntax and phonology and on the reading development and L2 morphosyntax of immigrant adults with limited formal schooling. She was a co-founder of LESLLA in 2005, was Newcastle partner in the DigLin project, led the EU-Speak project from 2010 to 2018, and now leads its board. With creative writer Margaret Wilkinson, she is co-editor of Simply Stories.