How to print textbook input to screen (not console)

Hey,

I’m completely new to Corona and have a very newbie question. I’m sure some people will cringe at this question and my spaghetti code.

I need any value I enter in a text box on screen to be printed on the screen (not in the console) and it needs to be updated real time. For example, if I enter “hello” in the text box, after I press enter it is printed at the top of the screen. 

local defaultField

local string

local function textListener( event )

    if ( event.phase == “ended” or event.phase == “submitted” ) then

        – Output resulting text from “defaultField”

        string = event.target.text

        print( string )

    end

end

        – Create text field

        defaultField = native.newTextField( 365, 400, 180, 30 )

        defaultField:addEventListener( “userInput”, textListener )

local options = {

            text = “”… tostring(string) … " " … tostring(string) … " ", --Display anything entered into textbox

            x = 365,

            y = 100,

            width = 250,

            font = native.systemFontBold,   

            fontSize = 24,

            align = “center”

        }

        local text1 = display.newText(options)