期刊名称：International Journal of English and Education
印刷版ISSN：2278-4012
出版年度：2015
卷号：4
期号：2
页码：383
出版社：Brahmaputra Publishing House
摘要：The theory of hemisphericity that gain importance in the recent years, related to theidea that people may prefer to use the mode of cognitive processing which is related to theactivity on the part of the left or right cerebral hemisphere. This article aimed at investigatingthe relationship between Iranian English as a foreign language (EFL) learner’s left or righthemispheric dominance and their creativity in EFL writing. The results of the writing section ofa TOEFL (2010) was used to select a homogeneous group of 50 junior and senior Englishtranslation students at Islamic Azad University, Hamadan Branch. Next the HemisphericDominance Test (HDT) by Venkataraman (1988) and also adapted Torrance Test of CreativeThinking (TTCT) that was used for measuring their creativity in English writing and is thoughtto be the best test to evaluate the creativity dimensions of students in writing (Rabbah, et al,2013) were administered to obtain the data. Findings of the study indicated that right braindominant learners had better performance in creativity in writing test. As a conclusion, it can besaid that investigating hemispheric dominance from the aspects of curriculum and teachingmethods will help teachers to design better syllabuses for improving the creativity of students inwriting.
关键词：Hemispheric Dominance. Creative Writing. Hemispheric Dominance Test (HDT).;Torrance Test of Creative Thinking (TTCT)
