Towards creativity in ELT: the need to say something new

Tin, Tan Bee

doi:10.1093/elt/cct022

Cited by 40 publications

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“…They are created in concrete, situated moments of communication. From this perspective, creativity in language teaching partly involves resisting the idea that meanings are already 'known' and that the job of learners to simply reproduce them (Tin, 2013).…”

Section: Language Languaging and Translanguagingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Creativity in language learning and teaching: Translingual practices and transcultural identities

Jones

2019

Applied Linguistics Review

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This introduction explores the four main themes of the papers in this special issue: 1) ‘language, languaging and translanguaging’ 2) ‘mobility and space’ 3) ‘transcultural identities’ and 4) ‘institutional and individual constraints on creativity’, and discusses how engagement with these themes helps the authors to move beyond traditional notions of linguistic creativity and creative pedagogy to formulate new ways of imagining creativity in language learning based on encouraging learners to make use of the full range of their semiotic resources and social experiences when communicating.

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Section: Language Languaging and Translanguagingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Creativity in language learning and teaching: Translingual practices and transcultural identities

Jones

2019

Applied Linguistics Review

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“…Tin et al (2009) in an attempt examined the perspectives on creativity in Indonesian students' and teachers' evaluation of short poems created by a group of Indonesian university students. Also, Tin (2013) in another attempt argued the way of transformation of language learning tasks into creative tasks. It offered two situations that improve creativity: "the use of multicultural experiences and constraints".…”

Section: Review Of Literature Creativitymentioning

confidence: 99%

EFL Teachers’ Creativity and Their Teaching's Effectiveness: A Structural Equation Modelling Approach

Khodabakhshzadeh¹,

Hosseinnia²,

Moghadam³

et al. 2018

INT J INSTRUCTION

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“…The design of the activities was primarily inspired by Trench and Minervino's () study, in which the participants in the experimental group were led to formulate novel metaphors based on conceptual metaphors as part of the creativity training. As Tin () noted, “promoting a creative desire and the need for learners to say something new [to the self] is as important as the need to communicate known and given meaning” (p. 396). These two activities aimed to encourage the students to explore their thoughts about love and life and to construct new expressions to convey their personal insights.…”

Section: Designing the English Creativity Workhopmentioning

confidence: 99%

Let's Think Creatively: Designing a High School Lesson on Metaphorical Creativity for English L2 Learners

Wang¹

2017

J Adolescent & Adult Lit

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This article reports on a practitioner research study exploring how creative thinking activities can be designed and integrated into high school English classes. It delineates the process of developing a metaphorical creativity workshop for year 11 students in Taiwan and demonstrates the students’ workshop experiences and learning outcomes. Results of the study reveal that the workshop stimulated the students’ metaphorical creativity and expanded their English‐language knowledge. Findings also suggest that the workshop can be further improved in several ways, such as including more diverse topics about language creativity and combining creativity training with textbook content. Overall, this study provides essential insights that can help English teachers design creative thinking activities and integrate them into high school English curricula effectively.

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Towards creativity in ELT: the need to say something new

Cited by 40 publications

References 7 publications

Creativity in language learning and teaching: Translingual practices and transcultural identities

Creativity in language learning and teaching: Translingual practices and transcultural identities

EFL Teachers’ Creativity and Their Teaching's Effectiveness: A Structural Equation Modelling Approach

Let's Think Creatively: Designing a High School Lesson on Metaphorical Creativity for English L2 Learners

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