The Effect of Creative Writing Activities on Elementary School Students' Creative Writing Achievement, Writing Attitude and Motivation (original) (raw)

2019, Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies

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 1 st 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. Arithmetic mean, standard deviation and t-test results and "Evaluation Criteria Form for Creative Writing" (Susar Kırmızı, 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.