DEVELOPMENT OF CREATIVE WRITING SKILLS THROUGH ONLINE COMMUNICATIVE TASKS BASED APPROACH IN A PAKISTANI SCHOOL

Abstract

In Pakistan, majority of students rely on cramming. Creative writing is ignored in Pakistani classrooms. Better one reproduces, gets better grades. English Language Learners are not made creative writers. The communicative method helps learners to communicate effectively. By using this method students are able to write creatively. The major objective of study had been to find how a communicative language teaching methodology was helpful in improving creative writing skills in English at the primary school level. Design employed was quasi-experimental. The total number of participants in a natural setting experiment was 60. The test to measure creative writing skills at primary school level had been administered as an instrument for the data collection. Data were analyzed with SPSS and by using paired samples t- statistics for the control and experimental groups. It had been found that there was an exceptional development in creative writing of grade 3 students as gain in every aspect of scoring rubrics i.e., Originality, Grammar, Vocabulary, Mechanics, Fluency and Form was very much high. Therefore, CLT is recommended to teach creative writing skills, specifically generating original and genuine ideas with fluency in primary schools of Pakistan. It is further suggested that Communicative Approach may be used to teach other literary genre like poetry writing, drama writing, and novel writing.