The enhancement of creativity through foreign language learning
Do personality traits matter
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15087393 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chengchen Li (0000-0002-7262-3309, University College London), Li Wei (0000-0002-2015-7262, University College London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 510-521 |
| Publication date | 2025-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bilingualism Language and Cognition (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1366-7289 • E-ISSN: 1469-1841 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1366728924000476 |
| OpenAlex | W4405590947 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 52 |
This study investigates how L2 proficiency contributes to creativity in relation to personality among 205 young adolescent English-as-a-foreign-language learners from rural China. Participants completed the Cambridge A2 Key for Schools English Test to assess English proficiency, the Chinese Big Five Personality Inventory to evaluate personality traits, and the Evaluation of Potential Creativity to measure creativity, operationalized as divergent and convergent thinking in verbal and graphic domains. Pearson correlation analyses revealed that L2 proficiency was positively associated with both divergent and convergent thinking across verbal and graphic domains, while Openness to Experience and Extraversion were positively linked to creativity components, albeit partially depending on the domain. Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism showed no significant associations with creativity. Structural equation modeling further demonstrated that L2 proficiency, Openness, and Extraversion directly co-predicted creativity components, excluding convergent thinking in the verbal domain
Big Five personality traits · Cognitive psychology · Creativity · Foreign language · Linguistics · Pedagogy · Personality · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience · Education and Professional Development · Educational Methods and Teacher Development · Psychology · Social Psychology
The nature of human intelligence
The Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R)
The Inhibitory Advantage in Bilingual Children Revisited
Divergent Thinking as an Indicator of Creative Potential
Socioeconomic status and the developing brain
Creativity, Intelligence, and Personality
Competing activation in bilingual language processing
Creativity and Certain Personality Traits
There is no coherent evidence for a bilingual advantage in executive processing
A Meta-Analysis of Personality in Scientific and Artistic Creativity
What did Simon say? Revisiting the bilingual advantage
Does the Bilingual Advantage in Cognitive Control Exist and If So, What Are Its Modulating Factors? A Systematic Review
Executive Functions
The Standard Definition of Creativity
A Guideline of Selecting and Reporting Intraclass Correlation Coefficients for Reliability Research
Expectancy–Value Theory of Achievement Motivation
An emotional advantage of multilingualism
How does bilingualism modify cognitive function? Attention to the mechanism
Task complexity and L2 writing performance of young learners
Does multilingualism shape personality? An exploratory investigation
The effects of plurilingualism and pluriculturalism on divergent thinking
The role of code-switching in bilingual creativity
The role of factor analysis in the development and evaluation of personality scales
University students’ burnout profiles and their relation to creativity and multilingualism
Bilingualism and working memory capacity
Effects of personality and threat of evaluation on divergent and convergent thinking
The Enhancement of Figural Creativity Through Second Language Learning at the Elementary School Level
Creativity
The effects of bilingualism on executive functions
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |