Adhinka Zahra Nur Annisa
Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
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All levels Students authoring online multilingual graded readers more
Wed, Aug 9, 14:30-15:05 Asia/Makassar
Semi-secret societies like the Tolkien and Lewis’ literary discussion group ‘The Inklings,' where authors share their imaginative journeys, have the potential to engage learners at some of the highest levels on Bloom’s Taxonomy - and meld the strengths of a learner in their L1 with the possibility of collaborating with learners from other language backgrounds to create graded readers for multiple audiences. StudioCLA.org is a group of ‘Community Literacy Activist’ students who create, translate, and simplify readers in English and Japanese. The creation, translation and simplification follow an organic process that involves the design of the story elements, vocabulary level, word count, and target audience. The first volume of these stories - YAMS - or Young Adult Multicultural Stories, consists of six stories each in both English and Japanese and each at three levels. This presentation will describe the evolution of StudioCLA from a grant-initiated project (JSPS 20K13154), and invite your participation in an international society of human creative writers of language learner literature in multiple languages that aims to ‘change the world through the power of art’.
College and University Race of intelligence: Humans vs. AI in the creation of graded readers more
Wed, Aug 9, 10:10-11:30 Asia/Makassar
Over the past three years, students hired as “Community Literacy Activists” (CLAs) worked to write graded, young adult multicultural stories based in various Asian countries in both English and Japanese. The processes involved students writing original stories, simplifying them and translating them between English and Japanese. An illustrator team completed illustrations and a team of voice actors created the audio books. Students tagged their work records with project tags. Another team of CLAs were tasked to use Chat GPT and other AI tools to create similar stories for other country settings. Similar tags were used to track the time and cost of creating stories with AI. In the spring of 2023, we hosted an event where university students (including CLAs) were invited to use Chat GPT and other AI tools to create similar stories for other country settings. AI prompts and tools were recorded in the process of creating stories with AI and similar tags were used to track the time on different tasks. CLAs who experienced both human and AI processes were invited to participate in a recorded focus group. The results of this comparison will be the focus of the poster, with Implications drawn for student-authored graded readers, both with and without AI assistance.