CREATIVE WRITING FOR NON-NATIVE ENGLISH STUDENTS: a Challenge

Abstract

Creative writing is a challenge for non-native-English-students. It is such an onerous task when they start writing. To generate ideas and develop them is one thing. To elaborate the ideas into a good English composition, is the other. The writing process itself involves a series of back and forth process, between developing ideas and revising the way to express them. This study will use descriptive qualitative research.
The data are taken from the assignment given in Creative Writing Class, 3rd semester English Department students, Universitas Jenderal Soedirman. There are 31 students in the Creative Writing Class. Certain rubrics are given before the creative writing process. From all of the popullation, in this paper, the researcher will present three samples which fulfill the rubrics of the assignment. In conclusion, past tense is still considered the best in fictional stories. Eventhough past tense is applied in most of stories, the inconsistencies on it still happens from time to time.The tone used by the students are absurd: mysterious and illogical; student 2 is pragmatic: realistic and plausible; and sentimental: thinking about feelings, especially when remembering then past.The results show that non-native-English-students still need a lot of improvement in elaborating ideas and the way to express them in writing.

Keywords : creative writing, non-native English students, challenge