Creative Approach to Language Teaching (CALT): Flipping your Language Classes Libor Stepanek Masaryk University, Brno Czech Republic [email protected].

Creative Approach to Language Teaching

(CALT): Flipping your Language Classes

Libor Stepanek Masaryk University, Brno

Czech Republic [email protected]

Masaryk University Language Centre (www.cjv.muni.cz)

• 35,000 Masaryk University students

• 9,000 Language Centre students per term

• 100 Language Centre staff members

• 7 languages taught (EN, FR,DE, ES,RU, CZ, LAT)

• 3 activities (teaching, research, projects)

CALT“…the use of any language is inherently creative…” (Clarke, 2010: p.2)

“Creativity does not happen inside people´s heads, but in the interaction between a person´s thoughts and a sociocultural context. It is a systemic rather than an individual phenomenon.“ (Csikszentmihalyi,M. 1996; p.23)

“ Creativity is a natural function of intelligence of every individual that takes many forms, has different levels and draws from a variety of capacities …“ (Robinson,K. 2009; Csikszentmihalyi,M. 1996; Torrance 1970, Runco et al.,

2010:362; Treffinger et al., 2002; Heindel and Furlong, 2000)

“…people cannot be taught creativity but, instead, the right combination of personal characteristics and an encouraging environment could produce it…“ (Csikszentmihalyi, 1996; Heindel and Furlong, 2000)

CREATIVE PERSONALITYJ.P. Guilford

Out of the class:- video- discussion forum- facebook- web quests- synchronous communication with peers- asynchronous communication with peers- peer-review- collaborative tasks- networking

Key Competencies in Academic English

Internationalisation Support

- online courses- seminars- summers school- conferences- net of collaboration