OD SLIKE DO PRIČE: UPOTREBA ZADATAKA KREATIVNOG PISANJA U SVRHU JAČANJA MOTIVACIJE I UČENJA U NASTAVI ENGLESKOG KAO STRANOG JEZIKA
FROM PICTURE TO STORY: USING CREATIVE WRITING TASKS TO ENHANCE MOTIVATION AND LEARNING IN EFL CLASSES

Summary/Abstract: 'A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words'. Pictures can stimulate and increase the interest and imagination of students so you can easily encourage a creative storyteller in them by providing them an inspiring picture on which to base their story. Picture Storytelling has long been recognized as a very useful method of language learning as it enhances students' language skills through creative writing. The aim of this paper is to explore the possibilities of how picture storytelling can effectively be used to foster students' motivation, creativity and learning in EFL (English as a foreign language) classes. This paper presents a pilot study focused on 88 EFL first-, third- and fourth-year students of the Faculty of Educational Sciences in Sarajevo, implementing picture storytelling tasks into our EFL classes in order to increase students' motivation and creativity as well as to develop their basic English language skills. At the end of semester, a questionnaire was given to all student participants in this project in order to evaluate their attitudes towards using picture storytelling tasks in our EFL context and whether they see such creative writing as a tool with positive effect on their motivation and developing their EFL language skills. The results of the questionnaire reveal that students had an overall positive attitude towards using picture storytelling tasks as an appropriate medium both for sparking their imagination while engaged in creative writing tasks and for practicing their English language skills.

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