Storytellers, Storymakers

This volume examines storytelling as a pedagogical tool in second/foreign language education, particularly for primary English instruction. Synthesising complementary theoretical foundations from narrative approaches, pedagogical and linguistic perspectives with practical applications including material selection, narrative structures, assessment strategies, and case studies, it aims to serve both researchers and educators in advancing narrative-based language teaching approaches.

Mireia Canals-Botines, PhD, is a lecturer of English Literature and Creativity, and Deputy Vice-rector for Research and Knowledge Transfer at UVic-UCC. She is currently leading The International Conference Storytelling Revisited and R&D projects on children’s literature, gender, and inclusion all related to education. Member of the Gender Studies Research Group: Translation, Literature, History and Communication (GETLIHC), she is responsible for the research line entitled “Gender and historical, literary and social studies”. Her scientific interests lie in the intersections between gender studies, English language learning, children’s literature and audiovisual communication, and author of more than 30 children's books translated into many languages.

Raffaella Leproni, PhD (ANGL-01/C), teaches English at Roma Tre University, Dep.t of Education, where she is Erasmus Coordinator and Institutional Referee for ITE-eTwinning and COIL projects. She works on Storytelling, Digital Literature and AI for FL/L2 teaching, ESP in a CLIL perspective, teachers' self-assessment, and the role of language in the participatory construction of intercultural social identity, with a particular focus on inclusion (Special Education Needs, digital divide, intercultural communicative language teaching), stereotypes and bullyism, the UNESCO Learning Cities concept, and the re-definition of gender perspectives in disciplinary studies.