Writing lessons for young learners can be challenging affairs for a number of reasons. Traditional ELT coursebooks may need adapting and tweaking to ensure that the writing lessons are both meaningful and relevant to the students’ contexts and needs.

In this session, I will demonstrate how the key concepts of Collaboration, Creativity, Challenge, and Choice can help elevate writing lessons for young learners, and help boost intrinsic motivation for language learning. This session will start by analyzing different types of learner motivation, and the aforementioned key concepts. This will culminate in a hands-on demo lesson utilizing the product approach to writing, where attendees will have the opportunity to see these principles in practice. Attendees will then be encouraged to reflect on how motivation was achieved using these principals, before being tasked with designing motivating writing tasks for their own classes.