The Creative Platform: Responses between Boys and Girls

in a Malay Language Classroom

Farizan B Md Amin 
(MA, NIE-NTU, Singapore)

Abstract: The challenge has always been to find relatively new approaches in teaching and learning. This includes the language learning. The Creative Platform by Byrge and Hansen (2010) is seldom explored in a Malay Language (ML) classroom setting. It has 4 pillars. Researcher aimed at looking on the students’ test-score to study creativity patterns between male and female students as well as students’ samples. Samples were taken from 14 students. Both quantitative and qualitative data were gathered. The findings stated that male students tend to express their creative thought through drawing (i.e., mind-mapping, comic strip, etc) before writing. While female students prefer to express their ideas through words.

Key words: creative, expressions, learning, students