Scaffolding Students’ Creative Writing Skills through Visual Arts

The study aimed at investigating the effectiveness of utilizing visual arts to scaffold students’ creative writing skills. The study employed the Action Research Cycle process and the participants were Grade 11 Humanities and Social Sciences (HUMSS) students in the Creative Writing class of the rese...

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Main Author: Dina Superable
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Language:English
Published: Philippine Association of Institutions for Research, Inc. 2020-10-01
Series:JPAIR Institutional Research Journal
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Online Access:https://philair.ph/index.php/irj/article/view/816
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description The study aimed at investigating the effectiveness of utilizing visual arts to scaffold students’ creative writing skills. The study employed the Action Research Cycle process and the participants were Grade 11 Humanities and Social Sciences (HUMSS) students in the Creative Writing class of the researcher herself. Total Population Sampling (TPS) was used; hence the entire class participated in the study. An intervention utilizing the visual arts to scaffold students’ creative writing abilities was used, which consisted of a series of writing tasks that were introduced for three weeks, one writing task per week. Reflective journaling was used in the analysis, supplemented by a one-on-one, retrospective, semi-structured interview immediately after the third and final writing task. In the thematic analysis conducted, the following themes emerged: “writing is made easy with pictures,” “painting to write makes the latter easier,” “writing is exciting, enjoyable, and fun,” “liberating and self-fulfilling,” and “boosts self-confidence.” On the whole, visual arts are powerful teaching and learning scaffolds that can help students overcome their apprehensions in writing. Thus, as instructional materials, they transform writing into a more familiar and less challenging learning experience for students by providing meaningful connections to their real-life experiences and authentic references to create mental pictures and generate ideas.
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spelling doaj-art-e9ff80dee3ab47df8487abb4d10010e12025-08-20T16:57:22ZengPhilippine Association of Institutions for Research, Inc.JPAIR Institutional Research Journal2244-18242244-18162020-10-0115112814610.7719/irj.v15i1.816778Scaffolding Students’ Creative Writing Skills through Visual ArtsDina Superable0Department of Education (DepEd) Regional Office VIIIThe study aimed at investigating the effectiveness of utilizing visual arts to scaffold students’ creative writing skills. The study employed the Action Research Cycle process and the participants were Grade 11 Humanities and Social Sciences (HUMSS) students in the Creative Writing class of the researcher herself. Total Population Sampling (TPS) was used; hence the entire class participated in the study. An intervention utilizing the visual arts to scaffold students’ creative writing abilities was used, which consisted of a series of writing tasks that were introduced for three weeks, one writing task per week. Reflective journaling was used in the analysis, supplemented by a one-on-one, retrospective, semi-structured interview immediately after the third and final writing task. In the thematic analysis conducted, the following themes emerged: “writing is made easy with pictures,” “painting to write makes the latter easier,” “writing is exciting, enjoyable, and fun,” “liberating and self-fulfilling,” and “boosts self-confidence.” On the whole, visual arts are powerful teaching and learning scaffolds that can help students overcome their apprehensions in writing. Thus, as instructional materials, they transform writing into a more familiar and less challenging learning experience for students by providing meaningful connections to their real-life experiences and authentic references to create mental pictures and generate ideas.https://philair.ph/index.php/irj/article/view/816educationcreative writingvisual artsaction researchphilippines
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Scaffolding Students’ Creative Writing Skills through Visual Arts
JPAIR Institutional Research Journal
education
creative writing
visual arts
action research
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title Scaffolding Students’ Creative Writing Skills through Visual Arts
title_full Scaffolding Students’ Creative Writing Skills through Visual Arts
title_fullStr Scaffolding Students’ Creative Writing Skills through Visual Arts
title_full_unstemmed Scaffolding Students’ Creative Writing Skills through Visual Arts
title_short Scaffolding Students’ Creative Writing Skills through Visual Arts
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creative writing
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action research
philippines
url https://philair.ph/index.php/irj/article/view/816
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