Using Focus Strategy in Developing Iraqi EFL Preparatory School Students' Skills in Creative Writing

Abstract

Creative writing is a very complicated process in which several different knowledge and skills work together simultaneously. The aim of the present study is to investigate empirically the effect of using focus strategy on creative writing skill & developing on Iraqi EFL pupils ’. Focus contains features such as generate new ideas, new ideas, realizing, alternatives and creativity. The present study is limited to the fifth-grade female students in the preparatory schools in Swerah City for the academic year 2018–2019. The sample of the study includes 32students as the experimental group and 32 as the control group. Then, it is ensured that the two groups are equal through a statistical analysis of a number of variables such as age, parent’s education, and achievement scores in English in the end of first course examination.