Development of creativity through the English language on gifted and non-gifted students

Abstract

The study about giftedness is increasing in Brazil nowadays. However, there is still much to learn and research about the subject. It is known that gifted students tend to develop more abilities than the non-gifted ones. Creativity and languages are among these abilities. Thus, this study aims to evaluate and report if the creativity of gifted students can be better developed through a study carried out with a foreign language, English in this case. The study will have a group of gifted students and a control group with non-gifted ones. The first group was previously identified in a master work of a research group (entitled "Identification of students with high abilities/giftedness by a multimodal evaluation") in 2013. Both groups will be composed of students from 3rd to 7th grade, studying in the same place and having the same English language classes offered after school. Children will be evaluated through pre and post-tests, analyzing their foreign language acquisition (through the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages Table) and creativity (through the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking - TTCT). After completing the work with English language and examining the results, it will be analyzed whether there were significant changes when comparing pre and post-test and possible differences between the groups. From the analysis of the obtained data, the central questions that guide this work will be answered: "Is it possible to enhance the development of creativity through English language? Does this process occur more effectively in the group of gifted students?"