Teaching Strategies in Light of Students ’Creative Thinking in Writing Education at Malang State University Indonesia / استراتيجيات التعليم بضوء التفكير الإبداعي لدى الطلبة في تعليم الكتابة بجامعة مالانج الحكومية إندونيسيا

Abstract

Students of university are expected to be able to generate information, thought and feeling theyhave in their mind through writing in Arabic Language appropriately and grammatically correct by understanding the concept of writing process and developing idea into paragraphs and essays.  Therefore, lecturers need to guide their students tocompose their newand innovativeessays in which creative-thinking based strategy is implemented. This strategy refers to five principles as follow: (a) fluency; (b) flexibility; (c) originality; (d) sensitivity; and (e) elaboration. This research is purposed to explain some learning strategies implemented in creative-thinking based on teaching writing. The researcher implemented direct observation using descriptive qualitative approach and the researcher himself as a moderate participant of 53 third semester of Arabic Language Teaching students, Arabic Literature Program, Faculty of Letter, Universitas Negeri Malang Indonesia, academic year 2017-2018. The study revealed thatthese 7 learning strategies of writing are based on creative thinking; (a) idea analysis and discussion; (b) divergent thinking; (c) lateral thinking; (d) alternative idea; (e) spatial thinking; (f) brainstorming; and (g) synectic.