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Creativity in ELT
ideas for developing creative thinking
Antonia Clare
creativity
growth
engagement
learner motivation
teacher motivation
Adapted from Chaz Pugliese ‘Being Creative’
How many uses can you think of….?
Creative thinking:
• Fluency (generating lots of ideas)
• Flexibility (ability to shift perspective, variety of ideas)
• Elaboration (building on existing ideas)
• Originality (coming up with something new)
Alvino, 1990
Creative thinking Critical thinking
generating ideas analysing ideas
divergent convergent
lateral thinking vertical thinking
possibilities probabilities
idea generation evaluation/critique
intuition logic + reason
suspended judgement judgement
many alternatives an answer
What is creativity?
Why?
How can we encourage creativity?
Using a framework to trigger creative thinking
“For Sale: baby shoes, never worn.”
• Married a Greek. Ended in crisis. (Beata Ozieblowska)
• Forgot mother's birthday. Delisted from inheritance. (Leah Montano)
• Went with the flow. Enjoying journey! (Carol Goodey)
• Got up late. Missed my opportunity. (Elisa Gomez)
• Learnt English. A whole world opened. (Liliana MacShane)
Evening. Excess vodka. Morning. Excess inertia.
Creative beginnings…
www.5card.cogdogblog.com
Involving the senses and your emotions
Photos by: @sandymillin @VictoriaB52 @dfogarty @acliltoclimb
emotion…
__’emotion’___ is like …
It tastes like…
It smells like…
It sounds like …
And it feels like…
Happiness is…
…walking barefoot on a windy beach
…
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…
…
…
The smells of childhood…
Write a description of one of the events. Add details of how you felt, why it was special.
Remember to include all the senses. Describe sounds (using onomatopoeia), smells, tastes and textures.
Thinking outside the box…
Using video as a springboard for creativity
Listen to the walls talking…
www.listentothewalls.pbworks.com
wallstalking.org
Using image a prompt
www.flickr.com/people/eltpics/
www.picmonkey.com
ELTpics by : @melgarrish @asalinguist @antoniaclare @worldteacher @sandymillin@thornburyscott
Creating stories and poems
Response framework
Engaging the emotions
Activating the senses
Thinking time
Imagery as a prompt
Video as a springboard
Encourage elaboration and detail
10 creative lesson sparks:
Six-word stories
Creative beginnings - first line stories
5-card flickr stories (50-word/100-word stories)
My life in film
Sensory poems (emotions)
I remember…(smells from childhood)
A Perfect Day (film / recording)
Walls Talking
Museum of me…
Snapshot moment
Thank you!
http://www.scoop.it/t/creativity-in-elt
Email: antoniaclare@aol.com
Twitter: @antoniaclare
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