BUILDING STUDENTS’ CREATIVE THINKING AT FOREIGN LANGUAGE LESSONS THROUGH CREATIVE WRITING
The article reviews the problem of building students’ creative thinking at foreign language lessons by means of using written and oral tasks at non-language specialities. Implementation of creative writing is proposed as a solution to this problem. Key features of creative writing and their influence on the components of creative thinking are analyzed. The paper provides the efficiency analysis for this approach in the terms of various conceptions of learning writing. A great amount of attention is paid to creative writing significance in the process of foreign language teaching. In addition to above intellectual skills of a person and his creative potential are discovered too.
Keywords: creative writing, creative thinking, creativity, thinking, foreign language, writing
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Issue: 11, 2014
Series of issue: Issue 11
Rubric: HIGHER SCHOOL PEDAGOGY
Pages: 159 — 162
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