Improving the 5th Formers’ Continuous Writing Skills through the Creative Writing Module

One method to support the success of teaching of writing skills is using story books. It has many kinds of benefits that provides the students more creative and challenging texts that require personal exploration, easier understanding of information which are commonly hard to comprehend and remember, and easier illustration in making connection among various elements and concepts being taught. This research deals with teaching creative writing through story book reading, and it is aimed at finding whether this method is beneficial or not in increasing creativity in writing. The study is carried out using a pre-test and post-test design to 14 students from the first grade. Between the two tests, the students were provided with basic knowledge of creative writing. The data of the research were the scores of the pre-test and post-test compared and analyzed based on the rubric of ideas, organization, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions. The pre-test result shows that 29% of the students achieve the standard of achievement. After the creative writing process, the post-test result indicates that 93% of the students achieve the standard of student achievement in creative writing.

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Using CoRT Based Program to Improve Creative writing Skills of EFL Secondary Stage Students

مجلة کلية التربية بالمنصورة ◽

10.21608/maed.2019.132095 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 108 (6) ◽

pp. 41-63

Author(s):

Asmaa Medhat Mohmmed El-sherbeny

Keyword(s):

Creative Writing ◽

Writing Skills ◽

Secondary Stage

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Exploring literary texts to develop students’ creative writing skills: proposed activities for Spanish as a foreign language

Literature in language learning: new approaches ◽

10.14705/rpnet.2020.43.1094 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 41-49

Author(s):

Carmen Martín de León ◽

Cristina García Hermoso

Keyword(s):

Creative Writing ◽

Foreign Language ◽

Language Learning ◽

Communicative Competence ◽

Writing Skills ◽

Learning Activities ◽

Literary Texts ◽

Communicative Skills ◽

Fictional Worlds ◽

Cultural Skills

Literary texts offer a rich environment for language learning that teachers can exploit to develop not only students’ linguistic (pragmatic, discursive) and cultural skills, but also communication and creative skills. In our study, we have used literature with different writing activities that involved the use of students’ imagination and creativity. In order to develop these skills, which require students’ communicative competence as well as their imagination, we need for them to be able to create the meaningful contexts that lie within fictional stories. The assumption is that, as students become familiar with the characters in the novels, they will be able to recreate situations that make sense for those very stories, generating a shared world in which they could immerse themselves. In that shared world, they would be able to participate in possible dialogues and build stories that could have taken place, thus developing their creative and communicative skills. In this paper, we show how the literature-based learning activities that we have designed following this hypothesis have helped students empathise with characters in novels and imagine fictional worlds. Such new fictional worlds have in turn empowered students to communicate in Spanish in an authentic way, that is, in a way that is similar to that of the characters in the novels.

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