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After discussing whether TESOL is an art or a science, the chapter examines two ways in which creativity manifests itself in the field of applied linguistics (AL). There are examples directly linking AL and creativity. And there are cases where work has creatively shaped the domain of AL itself. In the first type we consider the work of Carter on the creativity of ‘common talk’ and Tannen on conversational creativity. Cook and Crystal’s work on language play is also reviewed. We also look at some recent collections centred on creativity. In the second type we refer to work which has opened up new areas for AL: corpus studies, socio-linguistics and the spread of English, teacher research, motivation and materials development. There have been many new ideas and new areas for research. The question remains, how influential have these been on practice?

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Maley, A., Kiss, T. (2018). Creativity and Applied Linguistics. In: Creativity and English Language Teaching. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-46729-4_4

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