Unpacking Creativity for Language Teaching
Before unlocking creativity, we must first unpack what it means. In this book, creativity is unravelled from various perspectives and the relevance for language teaching and learning is explored. Tin offers a coherent discussion of creativity, adopting an inclusive and integrated but, at the same ti...
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United Kingdom
Routledge
2022
Taylor and Francis No Funder Information Available Taylor & Francis Taylor & Francis Group |
| Edition: | 1 |
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| ISBN: | 1000594947, 9781000594942, 1032126124, 9781032126104, 1032126108, 9781032126128, 100322539X, 9781003225393 |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover -- Half Title -- Endorsements -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Tasks -- 1. Introduction: Unpacking creativity and aims of the book -- Introduction -- Turning back to the word 'creativity' -- Aims of the book: Revitalising the creativity terminological landscape -- The outline of the book -- 2. The language of creativity: Exploring the terminological landscape of creativity -- Introduction -- Creativity as a multi-faceted term: Defining the undefinable creativity -- A metaphorical approach to defining creativity -- A tacit, intuitive approach to defining creativity -- An explicit, confluence-style, reductionist approach to defining creativity -- The componential model of creativity -- The systems model of creativity -- The 4Ps model of creativity -- A corpus-based approach to defining creativity -- Other approaches to defining creativity -- Creativity as a binary concept -- Creativity as a continuum -- Creativity as a dualistic concept -- Creativity as a dynamic and emergent concept -- Conclusion -- 3. Creativity as an inclusive term: Locating its common core -- Introduction -- Creativity as an ability to produce new valuable ideas -- Creativity as an ability: Unpacking 'ability' (noun) -- Creativity as an intention and direction: Unpacking 'to' (preposition) -- Creativity as an action and a trajectory: Unpacking 'produce' (verb) -- Creativity as a quality: Unpacking 'new' and 'valuable' (adjectives) -- Creativity as an idea: Unpacking 'idea' (noun) -- Conclusion -- 4. Heuristics and creativity -- Introduction -- Heuristics in a broad sense: General features and functions -- Heuristics in a specific sense and creativity heuristics -- Heuristics and language teaching -- Conclusion -- 5. Constraints and creativity -- Introduction
- Linguistic creativity as rule-changing behaviour: Lexical and semantic creativity -- The contextual dimension of linguistic creativity (where, when) -- Linguistic creativity from the socio-cultural, contextual perspective (where) -- Linguistic creativity from the temporal, contextual perspective (when) -- The motivational dimension of linguistic creativity (why) -- The demographic and personal dimension of linguistic creativity (who, whom) -- Segmentation of linguistic creativity through prepositions -- Creativity 'through' language -- Creativity 'of' language -- Creativity 'with' language -- Creativity 'and' language -- Segmentation of linguistic creativity through lexical associations: Linguistic creativity as language play and improvisation -- Conclusion -- 9. View of language and creative language pedagogy -- Introduction -- Literary creativity: Foregrounding language -- Implications of literary creativity for creative language teaching -- Promoting literary creativity through a product-oriented approach -- Promoting literary creativity through a process-oriented approach -- Involving students in the process of transforming texts -- Involving students in the process of experiencing texts as creative -- Everyday creativity: Overt and covert presentational uses of language -- Implications of everyday creativity for creative language teaching -- Conclusion -- 10. View of language learning and creative language pedagogy -- Introduction -- The usage-based model of language learning and creative language teaching -- Domain-generality of cognitive processes in language learning and creativity as the ability to exercise a multitude of cognitive processes -- Change and complexity in language and creativity as the ability to produce new, valuable ideas
- Language learning as learning constructions and creativity as the ability to produce acceptable and novel combinations within constructional constraints -- Language learning as language use and creativity as the ability to foreground language -- Repeated language use, type and token repetitions and creativity -- Salience of language use, language learning and creativity -- Implications of the usage-based view of language learning for creative language teaching -- Conclusion -- 11. View of language teaching and creative language pedagogy -- Introduction -- Teaching language creatively: Materials development -- Teaching language creatively: Reflective language teaching -- Teaching language creatively: Teacher development programmes -- Teaching language creatively: Use of humour -- Conclusion -- 12. Conclusion: Unpacking creativity for language teaching and learning -- Introduction -- Unpacking facets of creativity and implications for language teaching -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: My creativity journey: My journey to the West - to creativity -- Introduction -- The beginning of a new chapter -- An unofficial love affair turning into a serious relationship: My love and hate relationship with creative writing -- Moving on from creative writing to creativity -- My first research on creativity being plagiarised -- My first postgraduate course on creativity: A complete sense of ownership and pride -- Writing a single-authored monograph: Never to be completed? -- Why do I tell this story? -- Conclusion: My journey to the West - to creativity -- References -- Appendices -- Index
- What is a constraint? Constraints as limitations and rules -- If constraints = limitations, what does creativity mean? -- If constraints = rules, what does creativity mean? -- What does a constraint do? Constraints as prohibitors and enablers of creativity -- What can we do to constraints? Constraint handling practices and strategies -- Constraint elimination: blackboxing, removing and revising constraints -- Constraint introduction: self-imposition, translating and chance -- Balancing constraints -- Dimensions of constraints -- Constraints in language learning tasks -- Conclusion -- 6. Algorithms and creativity -- Introduction -- Algorithms, algorithmic creation, algorithmic thinking and creativity -- Adding unpredictability to algorithms -- An algorithmic view of language teaching: Teaching as a hard-work type of creativity -- Conclusion -- 7. The discourse of creativity in language teaching publications (2012-2018) -- Introduction -- Who have been writing about creativity in language teaching? -- What and how has been written about creativity in language teaching? -- Teaching language creatively vs. teaching language for creativity -- Creativity as an endangered species vs. a ubiquitous feature -- Fragmented and discontinuous views of creativity -- Selective views of creativity and citation -- Combining creativity with something else -- Focusing on product rather than process creativity -- Dissatisfaction and frustration as a driving force -- The paradoxical nature of creativity: More is less? -- Conclusion -- 8. Segmentation of creativity from a linguistic perspective (from language of creativity to creativity of language) -- Introduction -- Segmentation of linguistic creativity through question words -- The behaviouristic dimension of linguistic creativity (what, how) -- Linguistic creativity as rule-governed behaviour: Grammatical creativity