Creative Writing Challenges Essay

The challenges in teaching creative writing as a second language to middle school children

Writing is one of the languages skills that is very important to be mastered in learning English as a foreign language. According to (Sokolik, 2003). Writing is a combination of process and production, process refers to the steps and ideas we go through to produce it and production is the final piece of the writing according to (Zhang & Chen, 1989). Writing is a comprehension skill that incorporates grammar, vocabulary, conception and other parts of the language. By developing the writing skill it will help young learners have a bright future in their further studies. Writing gives learners an opportunity to express them self’s in a foreign language

Young Children’s attention span is around 3 minutes and are extremely hard to control if they are seated next to their friends or out of your sight at the back of the classroom. Teachers need to have good class management. Organizing the class is essential in class management, which means the student will be more engaging and motivated in the writing tasks and activities set by the teacher. Organizing the class into groups will get the students working together and give them a more competitive urge which will motivate them in the writing activities and get them to be more creative. Children love competition and the teacher should set competitive tasks and activities to motivate students (T. Rohayati,

Taking that in consideration the lack of creativeness and the boring atmosphere in the writing classes can be turned around into fun and productive classes with the right teaching approaches, good motivation strategies, breaking down complex language for the students to comprehend and clear instructions. Having said not only the students but the teacher needs to be creative to produce a fun and enjoyable lesson plan, which can make a huge difference in the creative writing