Our research projects

Our group members have conducted various research projects related to creative writing: 

1. Project by Alan Maley, looking at the effect of creative writing on language teachers and language teacher educators

(See recent articles by Alan Maley published in Humanising Language Teaching 14/3, 2012: 1 Creative Writing for Students and Teachers. ; 2 From Stale Custom to Infinite Variety.)

2. Project by Tan Bee Tin, examining the role creative writing plays in language learning ( The project investigates language learning opportunities and affordances offered by creative writing activities in EFL / ESL classrooms, using a group of students in Indonesia (2007-2009). The project was funded by the University of Auckland. Some outputs of the project are given below:

    Conference presentations

• Plenary talk by Tan Bee Tin: 'What happens when students do creative writing?' 8th Asian Teacher-Writers conference on creative writing, PPPPTK Bahasa, Jarkata, Indonesia, 6-7 November, 2009 . 
• Plenary talk by Tan Bee Tin: 'Creativity and constraints: new task features to create the real need for learners to explore and learn complex language' (MICELT Conference, 8-10 October, 2012, Ipoh, Malaysia)

    Publications

    Journal articles

• Tan Bee Tin. 2012. Freedom, constraints and creativity in language learning tasks: new task features. Journal of Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching 6(2), p177-186.
• Tan Bee Tin. 2011. Language creativity and co-emergence of form and meaning in creative writing tasks. Applied Linguistics 32:2, 215-235.
• Tan Bee Tin. 2011. Language learning creativity through acrostics. The Journal of the Imagination in Language Learning 9, 175-180.
• Tan Bee Tin, Christine Manara, Debora Tri Ragawanti, 2010. "Views on creativity from an Indonesian perspective", ELT Journal 64:1, 75-84.

3. Other projects conducted by group members:

See short articles by our members in the Humanising Language Teaching magazine 14(5), October 2012:

• Integrating Visualization Techniques into English Language Teaching and Learning (Wei Lee, P.R.China)
• The Inspiring Teacher (Nguyen thi Hoai An, Vietnam)
• People Who Don't Believe in the Power of Stories Should Think Again (Jayakaran Mukundan, Malaysia)
• Creating a Story from Everyday Life as an Effective Tool in Language Learning (Motikala Subba Dewan, Nepal)
• Multiple Intelligences and Post-reading Activities in the ESL Literature Class (Mallika V Govindarajoo, Malaysia)
• What Happens When Students Do Creative Writing? (Vishnu S Rai, Nepal)
• Classroom as an Inspiration (Phuong thi Anh Le, Vietnam)