ERIC Number: EJ1230224
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 17
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ISSN: EISSN-1305-578X
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The Effect of Creative Writing Activities on Elementary School Students' Creative Writing Achievement, Writing Attitude and Motivation
Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, v15 n3 p1032-1044 2019
Writing skills have a tendency to lose their importance day by day. In addition, writing studies with a product-based approach discourage students from writing. In teaching mother tongue, creative writing activities, considered as process-based writing approach, are among the ones that will make students feel like writing and regard writing as a need. Writing, reviewing, and sharing the stages of the process-based writing approach are included in the Turkish Course Curriculum (MEB, 2018) starting from the 1st grade. This study aims to examine the effects of creative writing activities on native Turkish-speaking students' creative writing achievement, writing attitudes and motivation in learning their mother tongue. The study employed one-group pretest-posttest experimental design. The sample of the study was formed by a total of 630 students from first, second, third and fourth grades. The data collection tools are "Written Production Instruction" (Türkel, 2011), "Writing Attitude Scale" (Yildiz & Kaman, 2016), "The Scale of Writing Attitude" (Susar Kirmizi, 2009) and "Writing Motivation Scale" (Canitezer, 2014). Arithmetic mean, standard deviation and t-test results and "Evaluation Criteria Form for Creative Writing" (Susar Kirmizi, 2008) were used in order for the analysis of the data. The results revealed that creative writing activities have a positive effect on students' creative writing achievement, writing attitude and motivation.
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Writing Skills, Writing Achievement, Writing Attitudes, Student Motivation, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies. Hacettepe Universitesi, Egitim Fakultesi B Blok, Yabanci Diller Egitimi Bolumu, Ingiliz Dili Egitimi Anabilim Dali, Ankara 06800, Turkey. e-mail: jllsturkey@gmail.com; Web site: http://www.jlls.org
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Turkey
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