ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the question that whether there is some fundamental relationship between creativity and language itself that language teachers need to take into account as they search for more creative ways to teach it. It focuses on the characteristics of natural languages that make them particularly powerful tools for the exercise of creativity and the ways of the successful use of language requiring creativity. The chapter further describes an outcome of language use and the creativity as a quality of language users. The fundamental quality of language is its capacity for facilitating creativity. The affordances of language that make it an effective tool for creativity is the rule governed, ambiguous, situated, and dialogic. The effective abilities that correspond to these affordances are the ability to think inside the box, the ability to read between the lines, the ability to adapt our language to different circumstances, and the ability to respond to the actions and utterances of others.
