The project aims at facilitating English language learning in resource constrained environments, through engagement with stories written and illustrated by the children themselves. There are two primary motivations, one, to reinforce the role of children as content creators rather than mere consumers, and two, to enable learning outside of a structured English language classroom.
LETS uses digital applications that employ Same-Language-Subtitling, voice overs, and voice recording software to encourage active listening and reading aloud. The books and stories illustrated and brought to imaginative life by the children supplement the animated stories they see and hear and respond to on tablets. The project is intensely collaborative, melding art and language and literature in ways that turn accepted relationships—teacher/learner, creator/consumer—on their heads.