TRIZ as an innovative method in English language teaching to support learners' reading and writing skills

Learning English is important primarily because English is an international language. In addition, English plays an important role in educational contexts and serves as a gateway to the world. Education is a process that enables students to both acquire knowledge and develop their creative thinking skills. The aim of this study is to investigate the benefits of implementing TRIZ, which is an innovative method in foreign language teaching, in English lessons to improve students' writing and reading skills. TRIZ is an innovative method of problem-solving that tries to make students' minds more flexible and creative. An experimental group and a control group were compared within the framework of a quasi-experimental research design. In the experimental group, English lessons, reshaped within the framework of TRIZ, an innovative teaching method, were held for two months. In the control group, any teaching activities shaped within the framework of the TRIZ method were not carried out. A pre-test and a post-test were used to analyze the effectiveness of the TRIZ method on students' writing and reading skills and to compare the experimental and control groups. In addition, observations (students' interactions with the teacher and their views on the teaching method used) were made to evaluate the participants in both classes and to compare their similarities and differences. The findings of the present study revealed that TRIZ can be used effectively to teach English in an innovative way, students in the experimental group were more engaged and performed better than the control group. The students who were taught English within the framework of the TRIZ method showed higher performance in reading and writing skills than the students in the control group who did not take the English lessons reshaped within the TRIZ method. In addition, the fact that the students in the experimental group developed their writing skills more than their reading skills revealed the effectiveness of the TRIZ method in improving their writing skills. Moreover, the TRIZ method has been found to be beneficial not only in increasing students' test performance but also in improving their communication skills. In summary, within the framework of this research, it was concluded that the application of the TRIZ method in English lessons improves students' reading and writing skills and can help bring an innovative perspective to English Language Teaching. Keywords: TRIZ, TRIZ Method, TRIZ Principles, Reading and Writing Skills, Innovation, Problem-solving.