Creativity and English Language Teaching

Alan Maley has worked in the field of English Language Teaching for over 50 years. He has lived and worked in 10 countries, including India and China. He has published over 40 books in the field of language teaching.  He is a Past President of IATEFL and in 2012 received the ELTons Lifetime Achievement Award. His research interests lie primarily in creative writing and innovative materials development. Tamas Kiss is Associate Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong – Liverpool University, China. He has been involved with language teacher education programmes in Europe, the Middle East, South Asia, Latin America and South East Asia. His main interests include language teacher education, materials development, complexity science, language as a complex dynamic system and creativity.

“The book as a whole offers us a unique synthesis of perspectives, and works hard to do so, presenting its case with precision and scholarship. … Depending on whether you are a teacher, teacher trainer, university lecturer or materials writer, there is something in this store that will inspire, inform and perhaps even lead to change.” (Jane Spiro, ELT journal, Vol. 73 (1), January, 2019)

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Creativity Theory.- Chapter 3. Creativity and Education.- Chapter 4. Creativity and Applied Linguistics.- Chapter 5. Creativity and Methodology.- Chapter 6. Creativity in Materials and Resources.- Chapter 7. What is a creative teacher?.- Chapter 8.- Becoming a creative person.- Chapter 9. Becoming a creative teacher.- Chapter 10. Pre-conditions for classroom creativity.- Chapter 11. Some possible frameworks and procedures.- Chapter 12. Measuring Creativity.- Chapter 13. Research into creativity.- Chapter 14. Network analysis of research papers on creativity in ELT.- Chapter 15. Suggestions for further research.- Chapter 16. Conclusion.