Multilingualism and Creativity

Himself having studied in several countries and become fluent in several languages all the while remaining active in creative writing, Kharkhurin (psychology, American U. of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates) explores the relationship between the two in a longitudinal study that uses his own experience as a starting point. He covers creative cognition, multilingual cognition, multilingual creativity, multilingual creative cognition, multilingual creative development, and implications of multilingual creative cognition for creativity domains and for education. Distributed in the US by UTP Distributors. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Anatoliy V. Kharkhurin is Associate Professor of Psychology at American University of Sharjah. His research focuses mainly on the relationship between multilingualism and creativity, but also includes encoding in multilingual language perception and production, and cognitive and sociocultural aspects of creativity. His work has appeared in several edited volumes and scientific journals. Currently, he is developing a new Bilingual Creative Education program that combines foreign language learning and creativity fostering techniques in a unified curricular approach.