PARTICIPATORY PROJECTS: AN ALTERNATIVE TO PROMOTE CREATIVE LEARNING OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Abstract

Creativity its development and estimulation in XXI Century is still a need in Cuban Higher Education that needs to be solved through the direction of the teaching learning process. There are huge numbers of literatures that recognize the importance of this capacity in the students and specifically in the teaching learning process of foreign languages. The practical proposal of the present investigation was carried out with 1st year pre-service English language teacher, in Las Tunas University. The main objective was to implement the use of participatory projects in the classroom to develop and estimulate creativity. The projects were carried out through stages students have to follow during its realization. We considered important definitions and a literature review to analyze and support ideas with different research related to the same field of creativity and projects. After the implementation of the projects the results we obtained were satisfactory in the development of creativity as a complement in the teaching learning process of foreign languages.