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We've got an on-going project in Newcastle, Simply Cracking Good Stories. Since 2010 creative writer Margaret Wilkinson and I have been working with creative writing postgrads from whom it's not too difficult to get engaging narratives for 100-400-word fiction books for our readership, migrant adults learning to read for the first time, in English. It is very difficult to find talented artists to contribute their work for images for these books. In the past I enlisted undergrads (language and linguistics students) to create short books but these are rather amateurish. Marcin Sosinski in Granada continues to produce such books with his undergrads in Spanish. We've done a bit of research on this; see Young-Scholten, M., M. Sosinski & A. Martín Rubio. 2015. Undergrads’ involvement in producing short fiction books for immigrant adult beginners in England and Spain. Language Issues 26:55-60. Best, Martha Young-Scholten, Professor of Second Language Acquisition School of English Literature, Language & Linguistics Newcastle University Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU England ________________________________ From: ESOL-Research discussion forum and message board <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Ayesha Afzal <[log in to unmask]> Sent: 29 January 2019 15:13 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Creative Writing and ESOL Dear all, I wonder, does anyone here have information about any research done in the area of Creative Writing and ESOL, in the UK or abroad? Any pointers would be appreciated much. Many thanks in advance, Ayesha *********************************** ESOL-Research is a forum for researchers and practitioners with an interest in research into teaching and learning ESOL. ESOL-Research is managed by James Simpson at the Centre for Language Education Research, School of Education, University of Leeds. To join or leave ESOL-Research, visit http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/ESOL-RESEARCH.html To contact the list owner, send an email to [log in to unmask] *********************************** ESOL-Research is a forum for researchers and practitioners with an interest in research into teaching and learning ESOL. ESOL-Research is managed by James Simpson at the Centre for Language Education Research, School of Education, University of Leeds. To join or leave ESOL-Research, visit http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/ESOL-RESEARCH.html To contact the list owner, send an email to [log in to unmask]