Developing Bilingual Short Stories and Community Literacy Activists

2023 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20K13154
• Research Institution: Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
• Principal Investigator: SEVIGNY Paul 立命館アジア太平洋大学, 言語教育センター, 教授 (00611443)
• Project Period (FY): 2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: Extensive Reading / Grade Readers / Biliteracy / Multilingual Education / Citizen Science / Community Literacy / Literature Circles / Creative Writing

Outline of Annual Research Achievements

The Young Adult Multicultural Story (YAMS) anthology presents six bilingual stories created, translated, and illustrated with 100% human, undergraduate student labor. Students also graded stories into three levels (stages). The collection is now a bilingual literature circle, translanguaging, and creative writing research dataset. The final two stories of this project were completed in 2023. Kondo's 'The Thing about Being Strong', and Ye's 'The Gifts of Luna' StudioCLA.org/stories. The dataset can be cited as follows:
Sevigny, P. and Manabe, S. (Eds) 2023. Young Adult Multicultural Stories. (Version 1) [Data set]. StudioCLA. StudioCLA.org/stories
Related research can be followed at https://www.studiocla.org/research.

Research Products

• [Presentation] Developing the Mindset of a Community Literacy Activist (2023)
  • Author(s): Sevigny, P. & Manabe, S.
  • Organizer: JALT International Conference
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Race of intelligence: Humans vs. AI in the creation of graded readers (2023)
  • Author(s): Sevigny, P. & Annisa Nur Zahra, A.
  • Organizer: The Sixth World Congress on Extensive Reading
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Students authoring online multilingual graded readers (2023)
  • Author(s): Sevigny, P. & Annisa Nur Zahra, A.
  • Organizer: The Sixth World Congress on Extensive Reading
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Remarks] Young Adult Multicultural Stories 1 [Dataset]
  • URL: https://www.studiocla.org/stories