Building Vocational High School Students’ Creative Writing through Internet Based Visual Narrative Writing Tasks

Magfirotus Sholihah, Tsalji (2022) Building Vocational High School Students’ Creative Writing through Internet Based Visual Narrative Writing Tasks. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Kiai Haji Achmad Siddiq Jember.

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Abstract

Creative writing learning strategies mediated by visual-based technology can facilitate students in more exciting English as a foreign language (EFL) writing classes. The use of this strategy involves students being more active in writing activities and developing creativity through the use of visual-based technology. While many researches have investigated the use of visual media to facilitate language learning, little is known how digital visuals are employed to teach creative writing in the context of vocational schooling. Thus this case study aims to investigate how visual media can involve students in creative thinking to elicit ideas for writing and how visual narrative writing tasks can build students' creativity in creative writing.
The researcher took qualitative approach with case study as the research design. This research project was conducted in one of the vocational high schools in Jember. The participants involved were taken from 10th grade students in multimedia competency. The data collected was obtained from three techniques which included direct class observation which was strengthened by several critical incident captures, in-depth interviews which evidenced by audio recordings (presented in transcript form), and also document analysis which involved student artifacts. These data were processed and analyzed using an interactive model adopted from Miles, Huberman, and Saldaña.
Overall there are four findings from this study which include two main findings to answer the research focuses and two new findings that emerged as a development of the main findings. The findings include teacher scaffolding during discussion activities to build content knowledge which also has the potential to explore students’ ideas, opinions and thoughts, next is the role of visual media which involves students creative thinking to generate ideas in writing, as well as develop creativity through writing visual narratives, and also post-writing activities as sites for students’ reflective practice is reported to be able to strengthen and improve their understanding of the material and also the products they have created.
On all premises, it can be proven that the use of visual media in creative writing skills can build students' imagination and creativity. Not only for students, but this strategy also has positive impact for the teacher. The teacher scaffolding can lead students to the development of basic content knowledge. Hence, the researcher recommends the use of visual media as narrative writing learning strategy which can build students’ creativity in creative writing skills.

Keywords: Creativity, Creative Writing, Narrative Writing, Visual Narrative.

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