'A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words'. Pictures can stimulate and increase the interest
and imagination of students so you can easily encourage a creative storyteller in them by
providing them an inspiring picture on which to base their story. Picture Storytelling has long
been recognized as a very useful method of language learning as it enhances students' language
skills through creative writing. The aim of this paper is to explore the possibilities of how
picture storytelling can effectively be used to foster students' motivation, creativity and learning
in EFL (English as a foreign language) classes. This paper presents a pilot study focused on 88
EFL first-, third- and fourth-year students of the Faculty of Educational Sciences in Sarajevo,
implementing picture storytelling tasks into our EFL classes in order to increase students'
motivation and creativity as well as to develop their basic English language skills. At the end
of semester, a questionnaire was given to all student participants in this project in order to
evaluate their attitudes towards using picture storytelling tasks in our EFL context and whether
they see such creative writing as a tool with positive effect on their motivation and developing
their EFL language skills. The results of the questionnaire reveal that students had an overall
positive attitude towards using picture storytelling tasks as an appropriate medium both for
sparking their imagination while engaged in creative writing tasks and for practicing their
English language skills.
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