Résumé :
This book is addressed to researchers and teachers of English as a foreign language. Its aim is to reflect on how creative writing, if started at an early age, can enhance children’s motivation to learn and understand the conventions and structures of the English language. It highlights how creativity in children – of key importance in any learning – can be stimulated in a writing classroom to develop an acceptable knowledge of the language, enable learners to recognize and produce correct utterances, comprehend the propositional content of these utterances and organize them to form text.

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Biographie :
Rosie Khoury Ghannage is professor of applied linguistics who teaches and advises in the areas of EFL teaching/learning, second language acquisition, discourse analysis, assessment and curriculum designing. She participated in the reformation of the Lebanese English Language Curriculum (1997) and she was a textbook writer and a coordinator for Cycle I of Basic Education. She has worked as both a consultant and a teacher counsellor and has written numerous research articles. Professor Ghannage has participated in a number of national and international conferences and has conducted seminars in numerous universities.

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