Fostering Students’ Creativity Through Modelling as Teaching-Learning Process to Write Poetry for International Students in University Level

Abstract

This research aims to describe how modelling was implemented in learning writing poetry for international students. The teacher took several steps to increase students’ creativity in writing poetry, namely; 1) Prewriting/ modeling 2) Arrangement/ Brainstorming 3) Drafting/ Creating Poetry, and 4) Revising. The research design was qualitative method that interprets phenomena seen from the side of the meaning. The participants were nineteen international students who were studying Indonesian at one public university in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia. The instruments were an observation sheet, journal logs, and interview protocols. The results revealed in fostering students creativity to learn writing a poetry, some steps were implemented. Therefore, the lecturer had played an essential role to carry out in learning to write poetry. Problems faced by students when they were learning writing poetry were limited time to study and vocabulary knowledge. To sum up, modelling is one method to develop students’ creativity for international students who have learnt Indonesia language. Providing authentic materials could also help students to explore their ideas and overcome vocabulary knowledge. It is recommended to implement another method integrated to technology to improve students’ creativity.