The effectiveness of creative writing in language learning : a comparative study between Bangla medium and English medium elementary level

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 and English medium are implementing this approach now-a-days to teach writing in the elementary level. This aim of this study is to find out the effectiveness of creative writing in language leanring. Moreover, I want to make a comparison between Bangla and English medium. In order to conduct this research I have taken interviews of 40 students from both medium. The findings showed that students of both medium like Creative writing classes and it influences their language learning. Therefore, it can be said that Creative writing can be used as an effective language learning tool.