Training Future English Teachers to Develop Students’ Creativity
Training Future English Teachers to Develop Students’ Creativity

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to analyse the importance of developing English teacher trainees’ awareness as to the importance of developing students’ creativity as part of the language classes. Creativity involves the communication of experience, a dynamic which can take on various forms and characteristics, although it does not imply a sender/receiver or encoding/decoding model of communication. The act of creation involves grappling with the conventions, traditions, media and institutional conditions through which any experience can be given communicative form. The creative act also entails a will to communicate outwards from self to others, from particular to general, from local to universal. Teacher trainees also need to be educated to think creatively and to be able to solve problems, in order to be able in their turn to bring the element of creativity in their language classes. This paper will provide a background to some previous studies and the field and will present the results of a questionnaire we administered among students in English Language and Literature, who are concurrently studying to become teachers, in order to assess their type of thinking. We will also try to put forward a possible pedagogical model that might be used in order to foster creativity in English teacher trainees.

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