THE EXPLORATION OF CRITICAL READING COMPETENCE ON LITERARY WORKS AS MEANS OF CREATIVE WRITING PRODUCTION

Abstract

Creative writing is expressing ideas or thoughts into an interesting and innovative writing. The creativity work is achieved through critical reading. The exploration of critical reading competence in literary works contributes to the development of students’ creativity in writing and reading skills. It aims to make students have skills in expressing ideas or thoughts into an interesting writing as their ideas are unique and innovative which requires imagination. The research method is a descriptive analysis method which aims to express various pieces of information by describing identity and meaning of literary works in forms of novel, short story and the result of forming new meanings into a creative writing.The findings reveal that the description result of students’ creativity in interpreting literary works and describing interpretation pattern of critical reading result and creative writing process. Reading different kinds of texts and developing reading activity from various perspectives can emphasize the mastery of reading learning model with critical literary approach.