EFL Teachers’ Awareness and Opinions on the 21st Century's Creativity and Innovation skill

Authors

  • Rayan Omar Azeez Department of English, College of Basic Education, Salahaddin University, Kurdistan Region –Iraq
  • Lazgin Kheder Barany Department of English, College of Languages, Nawroz University, Kurdistan Region –Iraq

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https://doi.org/10.25007/ajnu.v11n3a1508

Abstract

Creativity and innovation skill is considered one of the important skills of the 21st-century education, in general, and in language education, in particular. This paper aims at investigating the awareness and opinions of English as Foreign Language (EFL) teachers’   on the importance and use of creativity and innovation skill as one of the 21st-century foreign language education skills in EFL classes at the department of English, College of Basic Education, Salahaddin University. A questionnaire consisting of two parts has been used in order to achieve the aims of the study. The first part of the questionnaire, which includes five items, addresses the teachers’ awareness, while the other part, which is composed of three items, is related to the teachers’ opinions. Twenty EFL teachers, (10) males and (10) females, who are specialized in applied linguistics and general linguistics participated in the study. The study has found out that the teachers’ understudy are aware of the use and importance of creativity and awareness skill in teaching and learning English as a foreign language, and they also hold positive opinions on that.  Moreover, there are no differences among the teachers in terms of their gender, academic rank, and teaching experiences to the awareness and importance of the use of creativity and innovation skill in teaching and learning English as a foreign language.    

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Published

2022-08-24

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Omar Azeez, R., & Kheder Barany, L. (2022). EFL Teachers’ Awareness and Opinions on the 21st Century’s Creativity and Innovation skill. Academic Journal of Nawroz University, 11(3), 271–280. https://doi.org/10.25007/ajnu.v11n3a1508

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