THE FEATURES OF THE CREATIVE WRITING AS A METHOD TO ELABORATE STUDENTS’ EFFICIENT SKILLS

  • The authors:
    Galina A. Petrova
    Larisa G. Medvedeva
    Elena Y. Nadezhdina
  • Pages: 296-305
  • Section: EDUCATION AND TEACHING
  • URL: http://science-ifl.rudn.ru/296-305/
  • DOI:
    10.22363/09321-2019-296-305

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The article aims at analyzing the creative writing and its
application within the diverse methods to the enhancement of the
written speech in the context of the foreign language training.
Nevertheless, the experience of teacher’s practice points out that
student’s written essay does not meet the requirement of the
creative writing that shows the inefficiency of the approach for
the essay in the foreign language training and needs its
improvement. The goal of the creative writing in the process of
the foreign language training and the influence of the approach on
different creative thinking components have been examined into.
The features of the creative writing as a method to elaborate the
students’ efficient skills are reviewed in this article. Unlike
speaking, the written text means the strict requirements that are
assessed on saving the standard language. Introduced to the
audience, the written text is not able to be changed any more,
which results are in the content. According to the practice of
teaching, student’s written work does not meet the requirements
of the creative writing, which shows the inefficiency of the
approach of the creative writing in the process of the foreign
language training and requires its improvement.
As a result of our research, the approaches to introduce the
creative writing into the teaching process are proposed. By the
foreign language training the specialist receives information on
the specialty, expanding and forming a new linguistic space. The
task of the modern teacher, taking into account the professional
model, is to prepare the future specialist. The variety of activities
in the foreign language learning process and dynamics of
changing requirements for a professional in modern society make
it necessary for the student to have a creative approach when
applying professional skills and, therefore, to introduce into the
learning process activities aimed not only at mastering the
knowledge, but also developing the critical thinking, creative
abilities and personality traits. The students’ creative writing aims
are to present his outlook and subjectivity of feeling as well as the
uniqueness of his mind. At the same time, the creative writing
requires the student to be linguistically experienced and aware, to
have mastered the language respectively, relatively and think
fairly. Learning a foreign language the specialist receives
information on the specialty, expanding and forming a new
linguistic space. It is considered that there is the correlation of the
creative writing with various approaches to train the written
speech. It is considered in this research that there have been
defined three approaches of the teaching written speech:
prescriptive, linguistic and active. The creative writing combines
three approaches to the foreign language teaching. It is known
that while working upon the writing it encourages the student to
correct an essay by themselves and to study grammar rules,
which leads to use the alternative learning resources. It should be
noted that the undertaken research proves that there is a huge
educational potential of the creative writing process with the
necessity of improving the existing method of the written speech
training. The distinguished approach can be referred to the
foreign language training process in different forms of the verbal
expressions. The given conditions are met in order to improve the
efficiency, the writing tasks have to be selected according to the
educational goal and the knowledge level of students’ training.
Contemporary requirements of educational system imply not only
interactivity in the classroom, but also a high degree of student
autonomy and this imposes serious obligations on the teacher
including the ability to organize an independent project work and
students’ scientific research, to provide regular feedback, a
transparent system of control and evaluation.
Keywords: the creative writing, the education system, the
professional skills, modern projects, the prescriptive, linguistic
and active approaches

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