Impact of Creative Writing Techniques as the Pedagogical Intervention on English Language Writing Skills of Undergraduate Students in Pakistani Universities

Abstract

This study unfolds the impact of creative writing technique on improving the writing skills of a public sector university’ fifty undergraduates studying English language-related course, but their writing skills' proficiency is not up to the mark because of their use of L1 in learning other courses. The researchers held a pre-test to know grammatical, spelling, and overall syntactical errors. Later on, a series of lectures on how to minimize errors in English by using L2 was organized and eventually, a post-test was taken to know the results of the creative writing technique as a pedagogical intervention on learners’ writing skills. The findings reflect that the creative writing technique as a pedagogical intervention in L2 improves writing skills of the students at the undergraduate level if the use of L1 is minimized. In the light of the results, the study suggests that this approach is helpful in improving undergraduates’ English Language writing proficiency.