Year: 2017
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: As a response to the new requirements and needs of this fast-changing information era, higher education systems all over the world are focusing on developing learners' higher mental competences including creative thinking. The current study aims at exploring teachers' knowledge about the general concepts of creative thinking and its related skills. Moreover, the study attempts to investigate teachers' perceptions about creativity and its incorporation in the English foreign language (EFL) Classroom. To examine these issues, a questionnaire was administered to twentyseven EFL teachers from the English department of Badji Mokhtar university, Algeria. The Findings reveal that although teachers hold positive perceptions about promoting creative thinking in the EFL classroom, they generally consider creativity as a quite confusing concept and have uncertain knowledge about its characteristics.
Source: Arab World English Journal
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2774705263