Effectiveness and difficulties of creative writing in language learning: a study of secondary level Bangla medium schools in Dhaka city

Abstract

Writing is one of the productive skills which sometime seems difficult to acquire to the learners. There are many approaches to teach writing. Creative writing is one approach of teaching writing which has become more familiar in recent era. In our country many schools of Bangla medium are implementing this approach now-a-days to teach writing in the secondary level. This aim of this study is to find out the effectiveness and difficulties of creative writing in language learning. In order to conduct this research I have taken interviews of 40 students from Bangla medium schools. The findings showed that students like creative writing classes and it influences their language learning. Moreover, they are facing difficulties in various stages of creative writing classes. Therefore, it can be said that creative writing can be used as an effective language learning tool.