چكيده
Writing is essentially a creative process and good writers must learn to communicate their ideas clearly to an unseen audience. Creative writing is the process of inventing or rather presenting one's thoughts in an appealing way. The present study investigated the effect of synectics as a technique of creative teaching on student's writing abilities, considering the problem with lack of creative writing due to the absence of creative teaching techniques. To do this, sample of 60 Iranian EFL learners were selected as a homogenous sample based on their performance on English language proficiency test, i.e., Nelson Test. They were pretested by a writing test, in order to test participants' pre-knowledge of writing before treatment sessions. They were randomly assigned to two equal groups of synectics (n = 30) and control (n = 30).In synectics group, the teacher provided the students with a chance to reflect and encouraged them to create a new atmosphere and creative thinking. The control group received writing instruction through conventional methods in such a way that the students were required to write the same topic-based compositions. Finally, both groups of the study were given another version of writing section of PET as posttest of the study. The posttest was scored by two raters. The results of independent sample t-test showed that there is a statistical significant difference between the posttest scores of the participants of both groups on writing test. Therefore, the synectics technique was effective in promoting learners' creativity in writing.
Key words: Creative Teaching, Synectics, Writing Ability
