SCAFFOLDING ON CREATIVE WRITING: FEASIBLE ACTIVITIES FOR STUDENTS

Abstract

Creative writing has been an extraordinary issues to facilitate students in producing a piece of writing. Since writing in foreign language is sort of challenging activities for L2 learners, scaffolding becomes far-reaching activities to do. This paper describes the nature of creative writing, varieties of scaffolding and how it works, and list of sample activities as well. There are some distinctive elements between academic or technical writing and creative writing. Meanwhile, to provide assistance on students producing their piece of writing, several scaffolding activities are performed. They are writing the self which involved poetry writing such chinquapin, alphabet poem, and haiku as well, writing prompts or led in, learning logs and journal, and character quotes. In practicing the scaffolding for writing the students could have teachers’ assistance or they are able to do this independently. By practicing creative writing consistently, the students are trained to be skilled and professional writer.