3.Definitions of Terms
1. The Melodic Approach refers to an English creative writing teaching instruction in which the use of many kinds of instrumental music, songs, and visual aids are applied. A piece of instrumental music will be used in the introduction, writing and sharing steps in each lesson plans. For the thinking practice step, another piece of music will be used depending on the visual aid used. Therefore, two pieces of music are used in each lesson plan. The teacher's role is to guide students' imagination and help them think and write uniquely.
2. English creative writing ability refers to the ability to express ideas clearly, meaningfully, and uniquely. The creative writings were assessed by the scoring rubrics with the criteria of original ideas, organization, word choice, sentence fluency, convention and voice .
3. Positive attitudes towards classroom atmosphere refer to the students'favorable views' of the. socio-psychological conditions of the classroom, which are the teacher's behavior, the activities, classroom interactions, the music used in the class and the students' view towards themselves as writers. The positive attitudes towards classroom
atmosphere were assessed by an attitude inventory after the students were taught English creative writing through the Melodic Approach.