Description
Book SynopsisThis book aspires to provide a reflective and descriptive account of creative practices as well as research related to creativity from an international perspective. In particular, through a collection of 12 studies conducted in various countries and continents, an attempt is made to provide readers with creative examples of teaching practice and research incentives, as proposed and presented by the authors of this collected edition. The contributors of this book report and reflect on classroom practices that increase motivation, promote creative learning, heighten learners' creativity, enhance their learning potential and their multicultural sensitivity. They discuss challenges of applications in diverse contexts based on playful activities and stories that develop a creative learning environment in a foreign language classroom. Some other studies focus on multiple intelligences theory approach making students 'know' and 'apply' the appropriate behaviour and they present creative ways and multisensory approaches of approaching dyslexic students in a language classroom. The authors provide perspectives from different angles on the above mentioned issues demonstrating that multiliteracies practices, games, different art forms, popular-culture texts, digital storytelling and interactive activities could be effective tools in foreign language learning.
Table of ContentsPreface; Teaching a Foreign Language to Young Learners: A Study of Greek and Cypriot Teachers Perspectives and Practices; Activating Agency and Creativity in the Young Learners EFL Classroom in Japan; The Diary of Anne Frank: A Teachers Insight into Creative Pedagogy; Developing Social Literacy through Different Art Forms in Early Childhood Education: Does It Matter Which Art Form I Am Going to Use?; Digital Storytelling in the Foreign Language Classroom: Exploring Opportunities for Developing Multiliteracies in Preschool Settings; The Need for Developing Young Students Critical Literacy in Language Learning: The Earlier, the Better; Implementing Technology Creating an Effective Language Learning Environment in a Multilingual Teaching Context with Children of the Age of 6-12; Multiple Intelligences Theory Approach and the English for Specific Purposes Classroom: A Blueprint for the Future; Creative Ways of Approaching Dyslexic Students in the ELT Classrooms; Fusing PBL and CLIL for an International Relations English Program in Colombia; Pre-Service Primary School Teachers Foreign Language Training by Means of Using Innovative Technologies; Fostering Motivation of University Academics for Creative English-Medium Instruction; Index.
