Influence of Nature on Language Creativity and Curiosity among Secondary School Students

Since the ages known to humans, creativity and curiosity are found to be the basis of human evolution and it is greatly influenced by the nature in developing new ideas, innovations, thought processes and so on. Curiosity is an important characteristic of an individual which helps in learning and developing new ideas. Humans are born in ecological world and take inspiration from nature; thoughts are developed in relation to the ecological factors that are not visible but are constantly influencing their creativity. Nature plays an important role to evoke the two basic phases of creativity ‘preparation phase' and ‘Incubation phase’. Humans are born with many abilities and skills that are nurtured by the nature. Creativity has been one of the essential skills for humans in their development and hence is essentially one of the most significant skills in 21st century. As every human is born with creativity, it needs to be nurtured constantly; there is a need to give proper shape to the creativity and its thought process among students as well as the teachers in their expression, thinking, ideas, skills, etc. Creativity develops the problem-solving skills, free expression, communication, social interaction, etc., among the students. Hence it is essential to develop creativity among students through language creativity which includes four factors which are ‘fluency, flexibility, originality and elaboration. The present paper is to study the language creativity and curiosity among secondary school students.