"Effectiveness Of Genre Based Approach On Enhancing Creative Writing Skills In English Among Secondary School Students "

Abstract

The aim of the present study is to investigate the effectiveness of genre-based approach on enhancing Creative Writing Skills in English among the Secondary School students. The sample of the study consist 70 students equal in half from both the experimental and control group, studying English at Class IX, State Syllabus, Warangal Urban District, Telangana State. English is taught using the Genre Based Approach based as an instructional strategy to the Experimental group and taught through the regular method of teaching to the control group. The Tool of assessment of ‘Creative Writing Skills’ is based the ‘Language Creativity Test’, English version, developed by S.P. Malhotra and Sucheta Kumari (1990). The study followed the two groups ie., the Control group and the Experimental group. Hence, the study adopted the pre-test and post-test design. After implementing the genre-based approach, the instrument was re-administered to both groups. The results were statistically analyzed using the non-parametric test i.e., Mann Whitney-U test. The results revealed that the experimental groups’ Creative Writing Skills are enhanced than the control group as the result of teaching through Genre Based Approach. It is recommended that the Genre Based Approach can be used in different levels of education like Primary, Secondary and Higher Secondary etc., for enhancing Creative Writing Skills. The approach can simultaneously enhance students’ knowledge on grammar, subject matter or content, to an extent the pedagogical awareness on learning English and few other stylistic conventions of writing in academic contexts. It enables the students to gradually build their skills by analyzing and emulating good models of texts introduced through the course of study.