Creativity and Innovation in Language Education

Carmen Argondizzo is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Calabria (Italy), where she teaches students majoring in Economics and Political Science. Her research interests focus on discourse analysis and related pedagogical issues. She coordinates European projects aimed at enhancing students’ autonomous language learning and at promoting multilingualism and multiculturalism within the academic and enterprise sectors.

• Contents: Ronald Carter/Diane Larsen-Freeman/Leonard Orban: Prafaces – Carmen Argondizzo: Introduction – Régine Laugier: Languages, Cultures and the Discourse of Advertising – Marie J. Myers: Evaluating Creativity and Innovation in Second Language Teachers’ Discourse – John B. Trumper/Marta Maddalon: Standard and Identity: Two Case Studies – Rossella Pugliese/Serafina Filice: Plurilingual Communication: A Polyglot Model for a Polyglot World – Anila R. Scott-Monkhouse: Learner Autonomy and Multiple Intelligences in Vocabulary Learning: A Student-centred Project – Ian Michael Robinson: Corpus Linguistics and Fairy Tales – Fabrizia Venuta: The Use of Films as a Second and Foreign Language Acquisition Resource – Anna de Marco/Eugenia Mascherpa: The Role of Grammar Teaching: A Proposal for Chinese Students of Italian L2 – Carmen Argondizzo/Anna Maria de Bartolo/Lydia Gòmez Garcìa/Martiña Piñeiro de la Torre/Isabel Figueiredo-Silva: Intercultural Communication in Academic and Professional Settings: Voices from Two European Projects – Erwin Snauwaert: Intercultural Competence and CLIL as a Way to Business Orientation in Spanish Foreign Language – Claire Elizabeth Wallis: From Reality Television to Reality Performance: The Use of Authentic Non-Didactic Materials – Y.L. Teresa Ting: Into the Business Brains of Learners: How Neuroscience Research can Guide the Development of Language Learning Materials – Paola Gaudio: Creativity from the Familiar to the Foreign: Learning Business English with the Help of Anglicisms – Teresa Gonçalves: The Usefulness of a Blended Learning Module in Erasmus Intensive Language Courses – Laura Capitani: Wikis in Language Teaching: Creativity and Technology – Cristiana Cervini: Online Creative Tasks to Enhance the Intercultural Value of a Multilingual Group of Students of Italian – Maximillian Maurice Gold: Online News as a Didactic Source – Cesare Zanca: Online Learning and Data Driven Learning in Translation Training and Language Teaching – Maddalena Toscano/Graziella Acquaviva/Flavia Aiello: An On-line Course for Autonomous Learning of Swahili through Literature.