THE EFFECTS OF CREATIVE WRITING ACTIVITIES ON 8TH GRADE STUDENTS' WRITING DISPOSITIONS AND THEIR WRITING ANXIETY

The aim of this study was to determine the effects of creative writing activities on 8th grade students' writing dispositions and their writing anxiety. This study was organized as pre-test-post-test control group experimental model. In 2011-2012 academic year spring semester, sixty-one (N=61) eight grade students from Ertugrul Gazi Elementary School in Adana participated in the study. To be able to determine the experimental and control groups, "Writing Disposition Scale" and “Writing Anxiety Scale” were applied to the students in 8-B and 8-D taught by the same teacher,and as there was no difference between the groups' pre-test results, the experimental and control group were chosen randomly. As a result, 29 students in the class 8-B were in control group, 32 students in the class 8-D were in the experimental group. It was indicated that while there is significant difference between the pre and post test results of creative writing practices of the experimental group, there is no significant difference between the pre-test and post-test results of experimental group in writing anxiety.