IS THERE HOPE FOR CREATIVE WRITING IN OUR EFL CLASSROOMS?

Resumen

Creative writing must have a place in the English as a Foreign Language [EFL] classroom at Universidad Tecnológica Oteima.

Timing, disbelief, and curricula have been keeping us from allowing creativity and imagination to sculpt the process of writing of our students. Even though we must be faithful to the teaching of the mechanics and style of writing, we owe our students the opportunity to express their inward journeys when they write. As a result, when writting becomes a conduit to articulate the endless struggle to live, learning a second language is no longer an ongoing proof of linguistic competence, but some pedagogy to human development. In short, language learning, first and second, becomes an authentic translator of what is growing, cognitively and affectively, in our restless hearts. Surely, there must indeed be hope for creative writting in the EFL classroom.