ScholarWorks@숙명여자대학교

초록

This study introduces several association technique-based creativity enhancing activities(CEAs) that were used in a 12-hour intensive in-service teacher training creativity workshop and investigates whether 37 English teachers’ perceptions toward integrating CEAs into their English lessons were changed due to their participation in the workshop. In addition, this study also explores the factors that affected teachers’ perceptions and reasons for changing their perceptions if they did. In this study, one post-survey was conducted, the results of which showed that although there were discrepancies between the two groups with regard to their perceptions toward the particular value of using CEAs in their lessons, many of them experienced a positive change in their perceptions toward CEAs. Furthermore, it was found that a majority of the teachers would like to integrate CEAs into their lessons in the future if they had an English textbook that included CEAs and workshops to help them to better know how to use CEAs when they teach. The results of this study lend support to the possibility of using CEA-related workshops to help teachers develop positive perceptions toward CEAs and toward using them in English instruction, and call for future research on this topic to be conducted on a larger scale.

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