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Anke Zondag – Language Teaching Research, 2024
Because most real-life foreign language speech is naturally unpredictable, spontaneous speech should be practiced in the foreign language classroom. Student teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL) may benefit from practising methodology for spontaneous speech practice. This article reports the findings for a study into EFL student…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Learning Activities, Speech Communication, English (Second Language)
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Demirci, Cavide; Yavaslar, Erhan – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2018
Active learning strategy has an important role in helping students gain twenty-first-century skills such as creativity, collaboration, responsibility and effective communication. By being more active and free in classrooms, students take their own learning responsibility. In this study, we wanted to see the active learning strategy through…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Sadykova, Aida G.; Shelestova, Olga V. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The relevance of the present research stems from the need to consider the ways of preventing conflicts between the objective necessity of development of students' creative activity in the learning process, and insufficient development of pedagogical conditions for its effective implementation in theoretical and methodological terms. The article is…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Science Education, Creative Development, Foreign Countries
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Avila, Hernán A. – HOW, 2016
This article introduces a pedagogical intervention that includes a set of creative activities designed to improve the oral and written production of students in the English classroom, especially those who have shown a lack of interest or attention. It was observed that participants initially seemed careless about studying the language. Eventually…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Sawyer, R. Keith, Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2011
With an increasing emphasis on creativity and innovation in the twenty-first century, teachers need to be creative professionals just as students must learn to be creative. And yet, schools are institutions with many important structures and guidelines that teachers must follow. Effective creative teaching strikes a delicate balance between…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Creativity, Music, Creative Activities
Niel, Andre – Francais dans le Monde, 1978
Discusses the use of "creativity seminars" for releasing the creative senses necessary to language learning. (AM)
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Creativity, French, Language Instruction
Birckbichler, Diane W. – 1977
The interdependence of the creative process and the communication process is examined. Artistic creativity, humanistic creativity, and creativity in the psychological laboratory are briefly examined, and Guilford's structure-of-intellect (SI) model is analyzed. Instead of categorizing people according to their general intellectual ability, the SI…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communicative Competence (Languages), Convergent Thinking, Creative Activities