Abstract
FACTORS THAT NEGATIVELY AFFECT CREATIVE WRITING PROCESSES AND SOLUTION SUGGESTIONS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF TURKISH TEACHER CANDIDATES
This research aims to reveal the problems that negatively affect the creative writing processes and solution suggestions based on the experiences of Turkish teacher candidates. For this purpose, the opinions of Turkish teacher candidates were examined. The research was designed in accordance with phenomenology, one of the qualitative research designs. There were 23 participants who had experience in creative writing studies in the study. The data in the research were obtained through interviews conducted with the semi-structured interview form range developed by the researcher in line with expert opinions. The obtained data were analyzed using content analysis technique. According to the research findings, the fact that the teacher does not consider the interests and wishes of the students in the writing process, does not use creative writing methods and techniques by resorting to traditional (product-oriented) writing practices, and prioritizes the form rather than the content while evaluating the writing negatively affect the creative writing processes of the students. In addition, the teacher's inability to provide inputs that appeal to students' different senses and not to provide constructive feedback before and during writing negatively affect the creative writing process. In addition, students' not doing enough reading and research about what to write, not exchanging ideas, not being interested in the subject, not having the habit of reading books and not focusing on writing negatively affect the creative writing process. In the study, these elements, which negatively affect the creative writing process according to pre-service teachers, as well as the solutions offered for the elimination of these elements, were discussed in the light of the literature.
Keywords
Writing skill, creative writing, Turkish languge teacher candidates.