Exploring the relationship of creative thinking to reading and writing

Wang, Amber Yayin

doi:10.1016/j.tsc.2011.09.001

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“…However, the difference between male and female is sufficient to prove that female students have superior physics creativity than men after treatment given. This finding supports Wang's [17] research exploring relationship of creative thinking ability in reading and writing, in which female students demonstrate higher scores than male in terms of creativity.…”

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Investigating Students Creativity Based on Gender by Applying Virtual Laboratory to Physics Instruction

Gunawan¹,

Suranti²,

Nisrina³

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the International Conference on Teacher Training and Education 2017 (ICTTE 2017)

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Creativity is one of important goals of education. Students' creativity can be enhanced in information technology-assisted classroom. This study investigated the increase of students' creativity as they follow virtual laboratory-aided physics classroom sessions. The research was conducted towards three classes in three different high schools. The subjects had studied about virtual laboratory-aided physics learning. Samples were selected using purposive sampling technique suggesting 34 male and 36 female students. The results showed an increase exhibited by all students in terms of verbal and figural creativity. Overall, the average increases on creativity were of 55.6% for female students and 52.2% for male students. Verbal creativity was higher than the figural one, which was indicated of 59.02 and 41.97 for each group. The level of verbal creativity achievement were of 55.5 f or male students and 62.4 for female students, while in terms of figural creativity, the score was 44.4 for male students and 39.6 for female students. It was also revealed that female students performed higher verbal creativity than male students. On the other hand, male students had shown higher figural creativity than female students.

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confidence: 87%

Investigating Students Creativity Based on Gender by Applying Virtual Laboratory to Physics Instruction

Gunawan¹,

Suranti²,

Nisrina³

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the International Conference on Teacher Training and Education 2017 (ICTTE 2017)

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“…Also, the results can be in line with the finding of some other studies that showed a significant relationship between metaphor recognition as the initial stage in metaphor processing and creative thinking process (Lubart and Getz, 1997;Piri, 2010). By the same token, the result of other studies also showed a positive relationship between creativity and other language skills, such as reading and writing (Wang, 2012) vocabulary learning strategy like guessing the meaning of unknown words through Etymology (Seddigh and Shokrpour, 2013;Soleimni and Fallahpour, 2016). Moreover, in the field of writing performance, Whitney et al (1992) and support this idea that there is a significant relationship between creativity and metaphorical thinking in the process of writing.…”

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confidence: 72%

A Study on the Correlation between Creative Thinking of Iranian EFL Learners and Using Metaphor in Descriptive Writing Tasks

Yazdanjoo

Fallahpour

2018

International Journal of English Language and Literature Studie

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Article HistoryThe main purpose of the present study was to determine whether there was any significant correlation between high, mid and low levels of creativity in male and female Iranian EFL learners and using metaphor in descriptive writing tasks. To this aim, a validated creativity questionnaire was administered to 50 intermediate and advanced EFL learners in order to determine the creativity levels of them. Consequently, 22 men and 28 women aged between 20 to 30 whose scores were between 50 to 75 (low creativity), 75 to 85 (mid creativity) and 85 to 100 (high creativity) were selected for the purpose of this study based on the results of the questionnaire. The data from the questionnaire were then compared to the learners' scores on descriptive writing prompt titled "describe a face night of Tehran through an observation deck" which encouraged the use of metaphors. The writings were rated by three raters using Brown (2007) rubric of assessment. Applying Pearson correlation and one-way analysis of variance were employed to analyze the data. The results revealed that the low, mid and high levels of Iranian EFL learners' creativity and metaphor use in the process of descriptive writing tasks were correlated. The results have implications for language teachers and materials developers.Contribution/ Originality: This study contributes in the existing literature area of foreign language learning in which it is attempted to scrutinize the correlation between creativity in male and female Iranian EFL learners and using metaphor in descriptive writing. This study uses new estimation methodology to probe the degree of correlation between two variables.

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“…This is especially important for English language learners, for whom word play can unlock new comprehension of the complexities of English (Lems 2011). In a study of college students, Wang (2012) found that creativity scores in general, but especially the measure of elaboration, correlated with positive attitude toward and time spent on reading and writing. Word play, a particularly creative, motivating aspect of writing, may contribute to this connection.…”

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Primary grade students engage in creative word play through traditional and hands-on methods

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Word play is an important skill allowing product names, show titles, jokes, poetry and other writings or orations to be interesting, entertaining and wellremembered. This pretest-posttest counterbalanced study compared two instructional approaches for teaching second and third grade students (n ¼ 71) word play skills. Students at a public elementary school in Iowa, United States studied vowel patterns and rhyming as part of the regular school curriculum for literacy through two conditions: a traditional format of reading, pocket charts, worksheets and oral discussion; versus a more concrete approach of arranging objects and corresponding word cards in a chart-like formation. There was no significant difference in student performance between the conditions but an attitude survey indicated that a large majority of students preferred the object boxes for understanding of word play concepts and task enjoyment.

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Exploring the relationship of creative thinking to reading and writing

Cited by 104 publications

References 28 publications

Investigating Students Creativity Based on Gender by Applying Virtual Laboratory to Physics Instruction

Investigating Students Creativity Based on Gender by Applying Virtual Laboratory to Physics Instruction

A Study on the Correlation between Creative Thinking of Iranian EFL Learners and Using Metaphor in Descriptive Writing Tasks

Primary grade students engage in creative word play through traditional and hands-on methods

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