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Creativity in Language Education
[四川师范大学国际交流合作处]  [手机版本]  [扫描分享]  发布时间:2020年6月18日
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Speaker: Dr. Linda Fisher

Time: 2020.06.23 16:00-17:30

Venue: Tencent Meeting App

Meeting ID: 670 662 754

Host: Prof. Hongying Zheng

 

Linda Fisher is Reader in Languages Education in the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge and leads on the Multilingual Identity in Language Learning research strand of the ‘Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies’ project (AHRC, 2016-2020). Her teaching and research interests are in multilingualism, multilingual identity, creativity in language learning, metaphor in relation to belief schemata, second language teacher education, motivation, and the academic and social integration of English as an Additional Language learners.

 

Abstract

How creative is language learning and teaching and what do we mean by creativity? In this presentation conceptions of creativity in language learning are considered, including a report on an empirical project with school-age language students in the UK. For many years younger learners in the UK have been exposed to mainly transactional language in which the figurative has been stripped away. We were interested in seeing how learners reacted to different types of text, including poetry, and the outcomes when the learners were exposed to different teaching approaches, some of which aimed explicitly to generate creativity. Preliminary findings suggest that the rate of vocabulary development can be improved through creative approaches, while attitudes towards language teaching, whether within a traditional or creative condition, remain mixed.



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