Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
16th METU International ELT Convention, Ankara, Türkiye, 8 - 09 Mayıs 2026, ss.23, (Özet Bildiri)
“Teaching for Creativity in Turkish Higher Education: Perceptions of University-Level EFL Instructors”
Res. Assist. Barış MUTLU
Middle East Technical University
bmutlu@metu.edu.tr
Res. Assist. Doğa İLHAN
Marmara University
doga.ilhan@marmara.edu.tr
The concept of teaching for creativity, which plays a central role in promoting creative thinking, learner autonomy, and adaptability, has gained increasing attention across diverse educational contexts over the years. However, limited research has examined how English as a Foreign Language (EFL) instructors in the Turkish Higher Education context conceptualize and foster creativity among language learners. Addressing this gap, this quantitative study investigates Turkish university-level EFL instructors’ perceptions regarding teaching for creativity (TfC). TfC and its subcomponents are measured using the Second Language Teaching for Creativity Scale (L2TCS), developed by Wu and Zeng (2025). The participants of the study are EFL instructors of state and private universities across Türkiye, and they are recruited through convenience and snowball sampling methods. Descriptive statistics are used to examine TfC levels and subcomponents, while potential differences across demographic variables are explored through inferential statistics. The study contributes to the expanding body of literature on L2 teaching for creativity by presenting a depiction of the beliefs of instructors working in the Turkish higher education EFL setting, a basis for cross-cultural comparisons and for future research. The non-probability sampling methods and the selfreported nature of the scale used constitute the possible limitations of the study.
Keywords: L2 Teaching for Creativity, Second Language Teaching
Barış MUTLU is a research assistant and a master’s student in the Department of Foreign Language Education at Middle East Technical University. His research interests include language assessment and computer-assisted language learning.
Doğa İLHAN is a Research Assistant at Marmara University Department of ELT and a Master's student at Akdeniz University Department of ELT. Her research interests include language learning/teaching motivation and computer-assisted language learning.