JALT2025 - Tokyo

Creative writing tasks for the EFL classroom

Nov 1, 2025, 3:05 PM

30m

National Olympics Memorial Youth Center / 国立オリンピック記念青少年総合センター

Practice-oriented Workshop (30-minutes) Language Classroom Content Room 305

Speaker

Shannon Miyamoto (Kwansei Gakuin University)

Description

Creative writing can play an important role in fostering EFL student writers’ compositions, literary awareness, and overall linguistic development. As such, this presentation will introduce four creative writing tasks that can be used to develop EFL learners’ linguistic and literary skills: “Connect the Dots,” “Picture Perfect,” “MadLibs Adventures,” and “CROW Biographies.” Ideas on organizing, implementing, and extending these tasks, as well as potential modifications to meet different proficiency levels and learner needs, will be introduced.

Summary

Creative writing can play an important role in fostering EFL student writers’ compositions, literary awareness, and overall linguistic development. As such, this presentation will introduce four creative writing tasks that can be used to develop EFL learners’ linguistic and literary skills: “Connect the Dots,” “Picture Perfect,” “MadLibs Adventures,” and “CROW Biographies.” Ideas on organizing, implementing, and extending these tasks, as well as potential modifications to meet different proficiency levels and learner needs, will be introduced.