The Role of Digital Technologies to Promote Collaborative Creativity in Language Education

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Cujba, Andreea
Cutillas, Laia
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Selfa Sastre, Moisés;
Pifarré Turmo, Manoli;
Cujba, Andreea;
Cutillas, Laia;
Falguera García, Enric;
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(2022)
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The Role of Digital Technologies to Promote Collaborative Creativity in Language Education.
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022, vol. 13, 828981.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.828981.
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The importance of cultivating creativity in language education has been widely
acknowledged in the academic literature. In this respect, digital technologies can play a
key role in achieving this endeavour. The socio-cultural conceptualization of creativity
stresses the role of communication, collaboration and dialogical interaction of creative
expression in language education. The objective of this paper is to study the literature
focusing on cases of collaborative creativity and technology embedded in language
education. To this end, we carry out a systematic revision of state-of-the-art literature
consisting of 26 blind peer-reviewed empirical studies selected from several databases
that address our main research question, namely, which specific roles and forms of digital
technology can be identified in the existing literature that support collaborative creativity
in language education. Results show that the features of digital technology unfold a range
of learning opportunities in language education and can play three different roles in
promoting collaborative creativity: (1) as a tutoring device that guides the implementation
of key co-creation skills; (2) as a tool that enables and shapes the development of
co-creative thinking skills; and (3) as a medium that creates rich and resourceful
environments to stimulate the emergence of collective creative processes. The paper also
reveals that these three roles can be performed using a wide range of interactive
technologies that encourage students to participate in a rich, co-creative language learning
experience and equip learners with key competences to approach complex problems in
a globalised and hyper-connected world. Finally, this paper may contribute to developing
future language technology-enhanced learning projects capable of promoting key
collaborative and creative processes.
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