Poetry Writing with the Creative Writing Method Available in the Netzwerk B1.1

Writing skill is an important skills in the teaching of foreign languages. Course books have an important role play in the development of writing skills. The activities in the course books should be determined in accordance with the existing level of the students in an attempt to will increase their motivation and writing behavior. The aim of this study is to improve the language skill of the students of the first year of study of the German Language Education Department of Uludağ University using the creative writing methods together with the already learned linguistic knowledge as well as to increase their learning motivation and desire. Working with classic writing methods is often seen as a tedious and not motivating work of students. As one of the creative writing methods to improve writing skills, the techniques such as the "support structures" or "scaffoldings" successfully used in German as a foreign language lessons have been benefited from. For this purpose, based on the example of Elfchen-Poetry included in the creative writing activities in the course book "Netzwerk B1.1", students were asked to write poetry. One can give the students the sense of achievement that they can write poetry even in the foreign language. Examples of poetry written by students are included in the study.