Creativity in foreign language teaching

• Authors: Monika Ševečková
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Developing creativity in foreign language teaching provides students with the opportunity to effectively build language skills as well as increasing their motivation for learning. Practical examples are given using folklore materials (songs, tales, etc.) in learning Russian, as well as contemporary materials reflecting the culture of Russian speaking countries (films, poems, etc.). As well as increasing their ability in the target foreign language students also acquire factual information (realia) through creative language games. In this paper we describe recent findings in the field and propose possible directions for future research.

Keywords

EN

Cognitive linguistics; creativity; folklore; foreign language; game; motivation; pedagogy; Russian

• Publisher: Fundacja Pro Scientia Publica
• Journal: Journal of Education Culture and Society
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 180-188

Dates

published

2016-09-10

Contributors

author

Monika Ševečková

• Masaryk University, Language CentreKomenského nám. 2, 602 00 Brno

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15503/jecs20162.180.188