Creativity and English Language Teaching From Inspiration to Impleme
This book offers a unique perspective on creativity in an educational environment where there is a relative dearth of literature on this subject. The authors link practice and principle to provide a practical and valuable guide for more creative language
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ENGL ISH L ANGUAGE
TEACHING:
F R O M I N S P I R AT I O N T O
I M P L E M E N TAT I O N
AL AN MAL EY AN D TAMAS KISS
Creativity and English Language Teaching
Alan Maley • Tamas Kiss
Creativity and English Language Teaching From Inspiration to Implementation
Alan Maley The C Group Fordwich, UK
Tamas Kiss Xi’an Jiaotong - Liverpool University Suzhou, China
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Acknowledgements
We are most grateful to the following for their help and advice: J.D. Brown, Ron Carter, Gavin Dudeney, John Fanselow, Vivian Gladwell, Marc Helgesen, Peter Lutzker, Peter Medgyes, Freda Mishan, N.S. Prabhu, Luke Prodromou, Carol Read, Nick Saville, Brian Tomlinson, Adrian Underhill, Nic Underhill, Andrew Wright. We would also like to acknowledge the role of Dr. Tan Bee Tin in an earlier version of this book. Posthumous thanks go to Alan Duff, for his creative inspiration before creativity became a fashionable concept.
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Summary of the Book
Part 1 analyses and discusses general creativity theory, creativity in education, in applied linguistics, methodology and teaching materials. In Part 2 we define the key characteristics of the creative teacher an
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