Developing creative writing skills of B1 level students learning Turkish as a foreign language

This study aims to improve the creative writing skills of B1 level students studying at Uşak University Turkish Teaching Center through activities designed and organized by the researcher. The study was designed as action research. The writing products of the students in the research group were evaluated on the basis of the common score of three experts through the rubric for learners of Turkish as a foreign language, which was created by the researcher and whose validity and reliability were ensured. It was aimed to observe whether there was a significant change between the pre-application and post-application scores of the research group and the scores were analyzed with the SPSS 26.0 statistical package program. The difference between the averages was found statistically significant in the measurements made with the dependent samples t-test. The data obtained through observations, researcher diary, and video and audio recordings were subjected to content analysis, the facts and situations that were thought to have affected the students product that week were extracted, selected and interpreted through these tools.The data obtained from the interviews conducted with the students at the beginning, middle and end of the process were analyzed as descriptive and comparative findings with the MAXQDA 2020 package program. In descriptive findings, after coding and organizing the interview data,qualitative analysis was conducted using frequency tables, code sub-code sections model and code cloud while in comparative findings the codes coded as variable for documents were analyzed using cross-tabulation,code matrix browser document comparison table and two case model.In the findings obtained from the interviews it was determined that the perceptions and opinions of the students in the research group towards writing changed positively.