Tuesday 9 March 2010
Creativity and Motivation
Hello. What triggered my interest in creativity and language teaching was a study I conducted some years back. I asked some colleagues A. what motivated them to teach and B. what made them stay in this field (given the hardships). I must say I was surprised to see that for many, having a go at designing [...]
Read more »Wednesday 3 March 2010
Hello and Welcome
Hello. The quickest and easiest way to get into creative thinking has always been for me to take an old idea/exercise and try to come up with as many variations as I possibly can. This is what researchers call association, or combinational creativity . Here’s how it works. Let’s take ”Simon says’ as an example (you know: [...]
Read more »Wednesday 14 October 2009
Dogme and Identity
Having concluded my comments yesterday by quoting from Chia, I am going to start today’s blog by doing the same. The quote I picked out yesterday, and which I repeat here, is this: ‘Ultimately, Dogme to me, is using all the methodologies and activities I have under my belt to deal with emergent language.’ The second is [...]
Read more »Monday 5 October 2009
The Beauty of Writing
I’m doing something radical. Instead of writing this blog entry on my PC, in fact before even turning on my PC, I’ve reached for a decent pen and a piece of pristine paper – sourced, inevitably, from my printer. This is partly thanks to the inspiration of Umberto Eco, inventor of ecology and author of The [...]
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