Kreatívne písanie a jeho význam pri vyučovaní cudzieho jazyka

Abstract

Writing (as one of the four language skills – listening, speaking, reading and writing) has always been a part of school curriculum for a certain foreign language. The skills, however, do not stand on their own during foreign language acquisition and are rarely taught individually. Most of the time they are integrated, overlapped and they mutually complement one another. One of the basic questions is how to teach the student to write in a foreign language. It is vital to understand that writing (not only in a foreign language) has its specific features and aspects and it is different from the other skills. Not less important is to know what kind of writing we take into account. Writing as a skill can have various purposes – from teaching and practising grammar structures to writing itself, which may be the key aim of the educational process (such academic or creative writing). It may take quite long to the writer to learn how to write and to reach the final product. Writing, together with speaking, is a productive skill. It differs from speaking as it gives more time to the writer to produce the final piece of his/her work. It enables the writer to think over what he/she is going to write and how to write it, the writer could change his/ her ideas, register, attitude, to correct or modify the information without a reader noticing it – which is not possible when speaking.