Express Yourself

This is a practical guide for students to explore creativity as they progress through English Language IV and English Literature II of the English Language Teacher Education program at the National University of La Pampa. It provides them with a rationale and a variety of structured though imaginative techniques for integrating creativity and language learning at an advanced level. In a cline extending from the more traditional, written genres to the more visual, even multimodal ones, this textbook invites students to explore the possibilities of the Imagist poem, the short story, the reflective paper, the photo story, and the artist’s book as channels for both artistic creation and reflective language practice. Each chapter offers a definition of the genre under consideration and a set of strategies and tasks suggested for the study and creation of written and visual texts, as well as samples of students’ production as a token for what can be done with English if purposely tackled creatively. In sum, this is an invitation for students to express themselves.