Motivation as Bases of Creativity in Classroom Setting

Abstract

Despite the increasing interest in creativity in various fields from business to engineering to applied linguistics, it still seems to be marginalized within foreign language education. The research in this paper takes a different look at creativity by using the work of Amabile (1982, 1996) and to see if there is some relation between intrinsic motivation to learn a foreign language and creativity. Two instruments were used for data collection which were a questionnaire and creativity test for (57) university students. The finding of the study confirm that intrinsic motivation has a significant effect on the student`s verbal creativity with English.