Developing Creative Writing Skills in EFL Students: An Action Research

Year 2023, Volume: 5 Issue: 1, 1 - 10, 01.01.2023

Vidhya Pokhrel

Abstract

This research offers the scenario of developing creative writing skills in a real EFL context. As creative writing is one of the important skills to be developed in students, this research aims to intervene action plans in the EFL class to develop students’ creative writing skills. Action research was used as a method for the research and the research has been guided by action learning theory. With the help of different activities developed as an action plan, students were involved in writing tasks and the data were collected from the observations. Students’ behavior was studied while they were involved in creative writing activities. Findings give the rendering of the effectiveness of using creative writing skills in EFL class. The use of different activities and their details are the portrayals of the classroom realm which demonstrates the possibility of creative writing as a powerful tool to develop the writing skills of students.

Keywords

Creative writing, Imagination, Students’ interest, Creativity, Effective learning

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