ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how creative language pedagogy is informed by a view of language teaching as a creative pedagogical act. It views teaching as a fundamentally creative act and views teachers as having the potential to teach language creatively for creativity. Teaching language for creativity targets developing students’ creativity (both in a general and a discipline-specific sense) while teaching language creatively focuses on developing teachers’ creativity and is concerned with the use of innovative pedagogical procedures, techniques and heuristics to add variety, novelty to language lessons and to motivate students. The chapter focuses on teaching language creatively in terms of materials development, reflective teaching and teacher development. Developing language teachers’ creativity is viewed as both product creativity and process creativity. There is a wide range of skills and abilities that teachers can develop in their creative language teaching.
