The Role of Creative and Global Thinking in ELT Classes

Abstract

In recent years of our modern world, lots of new techniques and approaches on English language teaching have been invented and developed by language specialists. Creative and global thinking have always increased the ways of learning techniques. Creative thinking is the process which is used to find useful solutions or issues to develop thinking skills. It is also an ability to trust in a process which will bring beneficial outcomes. Global thinking is an ability and a process which we use to think and create useful ideas or solutions for the universal and the international issues. As Bonser (2004) states that the contemporary world we are living in has lots of global problems such as overpopulation, pollution and poverty and all of these problems need contemporary solutions and approaches. This paper deals with the role and the advantages of creative and global thinking in ELT classes. Creative thinking methods will mainly be emphasized. The concepts of global competence, global world view and global thinking will be dealt with in this paper.