Project Work and Creative Thinking Skills in the EFL Classroom

Abstract

Current trends to English language teaching and learning advocate the use of the project work as a pedagogical task to foster the 21^st century learner’s creativity. The present study scrutinizes the role of the project work in enhancing learner’s creative thinking skills in the Algerian EFL classroom. A project work analysis is used as a tool to examine learners’ creative thinking skills. Project work analysis comprises of the observation and the analysis of first year Tarek Ibn Ziad secondary school-Constantine learners’ projects using an observation grid. The findings reveal that the learners were highly creative in processing information and generating ideas and solutions.