Developing EFL Learners’ Creative Writing Skills Through Social Media

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10.2991/978-2-38476-036-7_30How to use a DOI?

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creative writing; Instagram; EFL learners

Abstract

Developing writing skills may be challenging for the majority of students while learning English. They easily get bored of typical writing structures and often neglect such tasks. To engage students in the writing process and boost their interest, teachers always try to search for new modern teaching tools. One of the contemporary instruments to develop English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ writing skills might be using social media. The present study is small-scale mixed-method research. It is aimed at testing the effectiveness of using Instagram in developing creative writing skills for EFL university students in Kazakhstan. Participants are 48 s-year students, who study the course Major Foreign Language B2 in the second semester of the academic year 2021–2022 at Anonymous University. An experiment with control and experimental groups have been conducted for ten weeks and the results of pre-test and post test essays have been analyzed using the quantitative method. According to the outcomes, the general experimental group’s rate considerably has improved to 82.3% (41.1/50 points) compared to the control group’s results of 72.5% (36.3/50 points). In addition, interview results establish that the majority of participants have a very satisfying experience with Instagram, admitting to finding using this social network extremely beneficial in developing creative writing and posting essays on Instagram.

Research Contribution: This research has implications for overcoming the problems and difficulties that English language learners confront when attending written courses. It intends to shed light on the impact of social media use on student motivation and attitudes toward language learning, improving linguistic abilities and writing excellence at the university level.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - A. Omarova
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/05/16
TI  - Developing EFL Learners’ Creative Writing Skills Through Social Media
BT  - Proceedings of the Erasmus Scientific Days 2022 (ESD 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 324
EP  - 331
SN  - 2667-128X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-036-7_30
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-036-7_30
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