Creativity in the English Language Classroom

Creativity in the English Language Classroom , edited by Alan Maley and Nik Peachey, comprises 18 chapters aimed at teachers and written by authors who address creativity through a fruitful range of perspectives. The ideas conveyed to foster creative and dynamic classes are illustrated by examples grounded in experience and suitable for manifold social and cultural contexts. They also provide readers with insightful concepts of creativity, for example its often unobserved existence in daily life, and how it can be incorporated into the classroom routine through the use of the main resource in a classroom, the human one: teachers and students. The chapters discuss factors which may be taken for granted when teachers do not conceive their teaching procedures creatively. In this sense, the book lends itself to a purpose, which is not usually contemplated in teacher training courses, according to Marisa Constantinides (p. 115), that is, to discuss creativity and provide the means for developing it. In view of that, besides its quality as a catalyst for strategies and reflections on how to enhance creativity, the book is also a handbook for teachers who can turn to it when ideas do not easily arise, and who need to engender sparks of creativity on a continuous basis.