FanTALES addresses these gaps by developing, evaluating and disseminating technology-mediated fan fiction-based and multilingual interactive storytelling tasks. These tasks are aimed at the telecollaborative teaching and learning of languages and cultures, for English as a FL, and for Swedish, Dutch and German as L2s. Through a collaboration of teacher training departments at universities with secondary schools in Belgium, Sweden and Germany, the project mainly addresses adolescent language learners in school contexts (14-18 year old) and their teachers (in-service and pre-service). The learning materials and activities developed by this project are intended to develop skills in reading, creative writing, written communication, intercultural dialogue and ICT skills through a learning-by-doing (task-based) approach. 

The project activities and results include: 

1. charting learning goals, learning needs, and popular source texts (youth literature, graphic novels, films, TV series, …) in the different local cultures; 
2. developing learning through doing modules for raising awareness about fan fiction, multilingualism and interactive storytelling practices; 
3. producing video tutorials for developing skills in these areas; 
4. developing and evaluating tasks, evaluation rubrics, and a web application for setting up, scaffolding and stimulating writing challenges; 
5. preparing a handbook for teachers, and infographics kits for other stakeholders such as (educational) publishers and creative industries; 
6. organizing dissemination events in the respective countries, embedded in existing platforms for professional development of teachers. Using an iterative methodology, teacher trainers and at least 200 pre-service teachers, in consultation with in-service teachers at the partner schools, will develop the learning materials and other outputs.

 The materials will be piloted with at least 600 pupils in schools. Experts in fandom, interactive fiction and telecollaboration will be consulted as external advisors to help set up and monitor the project activities and outcomes.  

FanTALES aims to impact on language learning in secondary schools, particularly in terms of modernizing the teaching of literature and of other creative forms of linguistic and cultural expression; on the new media literacy of adolescents, adults, and teachers; on the attractiveness of teacher education for languages and the profession of language teaching more generally; and on the promotion of intercultural dialogue in a multilingual context. Sustainability of this impact will be achieved by using open tools for interactive storytelling such as Twine or InkleWriter, by making the learning materials available as open educational resources to schools and teacher training institutions, by encouraging community adaptation and sharing, and by deploying the project website and writing challenge application on a free-to-use web platform.