ABSTRACT
Creativity is described as being able to solve problems in original and valuable ways that are relevant to goals, seeing new meanings and relationships in things and making connections, having original and imaginative thoughts and ideas about something, and using the imagination and past experience to create new learning possibilities. In teaching, when creativity is viewed as a product, the focus might be on a particular class, a task or activity in a book, or a piece of student writing and the features that give it a creative dimension. When it is viewed as a process, the focus is on the thinking processes and decisions that a person makes use of in producing something that we would describe as creative. In characterizing the nature of creative teaching in language teaching, it is useful to describe the practices of creative teachers as well as the underlying attributes, dispositions, and beliefs that provide the basis for creative practice.
