Contextualizing Creative Writing through Gala (Globetrotting and Local Adventure)

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The current academic shifts in the Philippine education entails the utilization of innovative, up to date and effective teaching pedagogy and strategies that suit the diverse learning styles of the students. Tantamount to the changes in the needs of the current teaching standards is the shift of the attitudes and perceptions of students to the field of creative writing. With this fact, the researcher finds it relevant to study the use of local travel as a tool to teach creative writing and post possible ways on how to adapt with the difficulty in crafting a literary work. Thus, this paper entitled CONTEXTUALIZING CREATIVE WRITING THROUGH GALA (Globetrotting And Local Adventure) seeks to utilize local travel as a tool to teach Creative Writing and enhance the student's writing skills.

METHODS

A descriptive qualitative research design was used which aimed to identify the existing phenomena on creative writing of the senior high school students of San Pascual Senior High School 1. The respondents of the study were the senior high school students of SPSHS1 who were identified based on thefollowing criteria: a. they belong to the locale of the study, b. they are HUMSS students taking Creative Writing as a specialization subject. A survey questionnaire was used to gather data and information. Writing and composition activities were also given to the respondents and were evaluated based on the set criteria.

RESULTS

Being heuristic in nature, this study encourages students' independent writing capacity through GALA, an out-of-the-classroom experience, and localized writing endeavor as they were immersed in the culture and the realm of the place. It was also found out that they positively agree that local travel can enhance their creative writing skills and there was also a significant difference between the grades of their outputs before and after using local travel to teach CW. Therefore, an action plan is proposed to more significantly utilize the local travel in the senior high school set up specifically in HUMSS specialized subject, Creative Writing.

DISCUSSIONS

The data collected from this study showed that the respondents positively agree that local travel can enhance their creative writing skills. Therefore, an action plan is proposed to more significantly utilize the local travel in the senior high school set up specifically in HUMSS specialized subject, Creative Writing.