Teaching creative writing in primary schools: a systematic review of the literature through the lens of reflexivity

Barton, Georgina; Khosronejad, Maryam; Ryan, Mary; Kervin, Lisa; Myhill, Debra

doi:10.1007/s13384-023-00641-9

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“…Then, the teacher employed this strategy to facilitate the teaching process, which includes receiving, student opinions and encouraging students to take responsibility for their learning through discovery learning which is an effective strategy to teach writing. It can build the students' creativity and confidence in writing by exploring and analyzing the problems by themselves guided by the teacher (Barton et al, 2023;Price, 2020). In addition, this strategy can minimalize the students' laziness by being active in the class session in all situations.…”

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English Teacher’s Strategy in Teaching Writing Using Discovery Learning

Rohmi,

Wahyuni

2024

JPBI

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Writing is the one of crucial skills in learning English. students can communicate their emotions, ideas and. opinions through writing. Discovery Learning is a teaching-learning activity in which students construct their knowledge by identifying the information to help them to be critical thinking. However, students enjoy learning writing. Therefore this research aims to analyze English teacher strategy in teaching writing using discovery learning. The design applied in this research is qualitative research and the technique of this research is a case study. The subject of this research is the English teacher of MTsN. Data collection used three instruments observation, interview, and documentation. The result of this research, there are five roles of discovery learning that the teacher used, that are: (a) Stimulation, (b)Problem Statement, (c)Data Collection, (d) verification, and, (e)generalization). The advantages of discovery learning namely; (1) supporting learner’s active participation in the learning process; (2) think creativity; (3) highly students motivate, allow finding something by themselves. Using discovery learning can improve students’ ability to think freely. Specifically, discovery learning trains students’ cognitive skills to find and solve problems. Discovery learning strategy is very suitable to use to improve students' writing skills independently.

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English Teacher’s Strategy in Teaching Writing Using Discovery Learning

Rohmi,

Wahyuni

2024

JPBI

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“…Creativity has been identified as one of the top competencies that future workers need to obtain to survive and work effectively (Uslu & Uslu, 2021). When it comes to young learners, creative writing instruction has a direct impact on the development of their critical thinking and problem-solving skills (Barton et al, 2023). Therefore, creative writing instruction for students is teachers' imperative task.…”

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“…Due to the significance of creative writing instruction, there has been significant focus on creative writing practices in primary schools (Graham et al, 2012(Graham et al, , revised 2018Göçen, 2019;Barton et al, 2023). Besides several positive signals, several challenges have been recognized, which consist of teachers and students' misconception of creative writing, leading to ineffective pedagogy.…”

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Creative Writing Instruction for Primary Students: An in-Depth Analysis in the Context of Curriculum Reform in Vietnam

Bui,

Hsieh

2024

International Online Journal of Primary Education

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In Vietnam’s 2018 Literacy Education Curriculum Guideline, creative writing is a new requirement, emphasized for its goals of developing primary students’ language competencies, critical thinking, and problem-solving. This new requirement offers teachers an opportunity to help students enhance their writing competencies and presents a challenge, as it requires them to have specific competencies, professional development, and specific guidelines. When it comes to the current situation of creative writing instruction in primary schools, it has many limitations and requires improvement. While instructional materials significantly influence teachers’ instruction by establishing suitable educational objectives, methodologies, and contents, the coverage of contents on creative writing instruction in some reference materials is very limited, leading to confusion among teachers and ineffective practices in actual classrooms. Therefore, an in-depth analysis of some key reference documents is crucial to come up with suggestions to improve the quality of creative writing instruction in primary schools, which is the focus of this study. The findings revealed some problems with possible suggestions for the four following issues: (1) approaches for creative writing for primary students, (2) approaches for assessing students’ creative writing competencies, (3) time allocation for creative writing instruction, and (4) contents on creative writing instruction in Vietnamese Textbooks.

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“…The biggest challenge faced by teachers is that most of the students' desire to write is very low. In general, the main problems that cause students to have low motivation are students who are trained in a writing style they don't like, unknown recommended topics, difficulty developing ideas, and building ideas to be coherent, clear, and systematic (Barton et al, 2023;Edwards et al, 2021). By writing creatively, the difficulties experienced by these students can be overcome.…”

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“…Creative writing can be defined as a writing process that relies on the development of creativity and personal expression in the form of good and interesting writing. they are able to produce works that are different, good, and interesting, such as short stories (Barton et al, 2023;Kim et al, 2021). The process of creative writing is called creative writing.…”

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The Effectiveness of the Short Story Writing Program in Developing Students' Creative Writing Skills

Munir,

Hendaryan

2023

j. pendidik. indonesia.

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This research is motivated by the low ability of creative writing. Students still find it difficult to write literary works, especially short stories. This study aims to analyze the effect of the short story writing program on the creative writing skills of high school students. Analysis was carried out on aspects of word choice (shape, synonyms, collocation) and aspects of creativity in making short stories (fluency, flexibility, originality and elaboration). The method used in this research is quasi-experimental. The instrument used is a test of creative writing skills and indicators for assessing aspects of word choice and creativity. Research participants consisted of 250 high school students. The number of samples was divided into 125 students in the experimental group and 125 students in the control group. Data were analyze using descriptive statistics, t test, analysis of variance test (ANOVA) to investigate significant differences between the means and calculate the effect size using SPSS. The results of the study show that short story writing programs can improve students' creative writing skills. The improvement of students' short story writing skills can be seen in the improvement in the quality of writing from several aspects, namely the aspect of word choice (forms, synonyms, collocations) and aspects of creativity in making short stories (fluency, flexibility, originality and elaboration). From the results of the study it can be concluded that this creative writing program can improve the ability to write short stories.

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Teaching creative writing in primary schools: a systematic review of the literature through the lens of reflexivity

Cited by 7 publications

References 46 publications

English Teacher’s Strategy in Teaching Writing Using Discovery Learning

English Teacher’s Strategy in Teaching Writing Using Discovery Learning

Creative Writing Instruction for Primary Students: An in-Depth Analysis in the Context of Curriculum Reform in Vietnam

The Effectiveness of the Short Story Writing Program in Developing Students' Creative Writing Skills

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