Creative Writing in an EFL Writing Class: Student Perspectives

創意寫作在英語寫作課程中的應用：學生觀點

葉純純(Chun-Chun Yeh)

《英語教學期刊》 41卷3期 (2017/09) Pp. 1-29

https://doi.org/10.6330/ETL.2017.41.3.01

摘要

Previous research on learning and teaching creative writing in English as a second or foreign language contexts has focused on courses or workshops devoted to writing of poetry or stories, very few studies have addressed how creative writing may be used in an EFL writing course to enrich students' learning and writing experience. Using in-depth interviewing as the main research tool, this paper investigates eight Taiwanese undergraduate students' experience of creative writing as an autonomous, free-choice writing assignment. Findings suggested that students conceptualized creative writing as free and unstructured, stimulating thinking and offering an opportunity for their imagination to run wild. In the one-year exploration of creative writing, students gradually developed their own approaches and exhibited different writing orientations, some drawing mainly from daily life experience and some leaning towards imagination. Overall, students' writing motivation, learner autonomy, and audience awareness were enhanced, which may be attributed to peer response groups and minimal teacher intervention in students' writing process. Implications of these findings for researchers and educators are discussed.

關鍵字

creative writing ； English as a foreign language writing instruction ； learner perspectives

並列摘要

以英語為二／外語的創意寫作教學通常都是在專門的詩作或故事寫作課程或工作坊進行，很少有研究討論如何在一般英語寫作課程中使用創意寫作來豐富學生的學習和寫作經驗。本文以深度訪談為主要研究工具，探討八位臺灣大學生從事高自主性及自由度的創意寫作之經驗及看法。結果顯示，學生認為創意寫作就是自由寫作，沒有固定寫作格式，可以刺激思考，並提供盡情發揮想像力的空間。學生在一年的創意寫作探索過程裡，逐漸發展自己的寫作方法及性向，有些學生主要取材日常生活經驗，也有些嘗試勾畫自己的想像世界。整體而言，這個創意寫作活動增強了學生的寫作動機，學習自主性和讀者覺察能力，此結果或可歸因於同儕回饋及教師避免直接介入學生的寫作過程。論文最後提出教學建議及未來研究方向。

並列關鍵字

創意寫作 ； 英語寫作教學 ； 學生觀點

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