The arts have become an increasing focus of attention for applied linguists, with a rich diversity of approaches and models of working emerging. Creative inquiry can be defined as 'any social research or human inquiry that adapts the tenets of the creative arts as a part of the methodology' (Leavy, 2014: 1). However, there is a risk that creative inquiry is seen as method, and that its theoretical affordances and implications remain unmined. This colloquium therefore considers what creative inquiry in applied linguistics is, how it has been used, and how it might extend our understandings of communication and language in relation to 'real-world problems' (cf. Brumfit 1995: 27). The papers present a range of research from different contexts, working with, into and through the arts in multiple ways. These projects - broad-ranging in scope, in place, in questions, and grounded in different forms of arts practice- enable us collectively to ask what the relationship is between communication and creative arts and, importantly, what the affordances of this might be for applied linguistics. The papers will therefore set out the scope of research engaging with creative inquiry in applied linguistics and discuss theoretical implications arising for the field.
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The arts have become an increasing focus of attention for applied linguists, with a rich diversity of approaches and models of working emerging. Creative inquiry can be defined as 'any social research or human inquiry that adapts the tenets of the creative arts as a part of the methodology' (Leavy, 2014: 1). However, there is a risk that creative inquiry is seen as method, and that its theoretical affordances and implications remain unmined. This colloquium therefore considers what creative inquiry in applied linguistics is, how it has been used, and how it might extend our understandings of communication and language in relation to 'real-world problems' (cf. Brumfit 1995: 27). The papers present a range of research from different contexts, working with, into and through the arts in multiple ways. These projects - broad-ranging in scope, in place, in questions, and grounded in different forms of arts practice- enable us collectively to ask what the relationship is between communication and creative arts and, importantly, what the affordances of this might be for applied linguistics. The papers will therefore set out the scope of research engaging with creative inquiry in applied linguistics and discuss theoretical implications arising for the field.
S131 detailed programme, click here
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Theresa Catalano
Kathleen McGovern
Kelli Zezulka
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