Article History Keywords Creativity Metaphor Descriptive writing Creative thinking. Brain based functions Literacy device Foreign language learning Creative ability. Contribution/ Originality: This study contributes in the existing literature area of foreign language learning in which it is attempted to scrutinize the correlation between creativity in male and female Iranian EFL learners and using metaphor in descriptive writing. This study uses new estimation methodology to probe the degree of

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... correlation between two variables. (2001) defines creativity as the ability to think of novel thoughts that happen to be beyond belief on one hand yet comprehensible on the other, and to some extent appreciated as well. Torrance (1966) described the concept as: A process of becoming sensitive to problems, deficiencies, gaps in knowledge, missing elements, disharmonies, and so on; identifying the difficulty; searching for solutions, making guesses, or formulating International Journal of English Language and Literature Studies, 2018, 7(2): 32-44 33 hypotheses about the deficiencies: testing and retesting these hypotheses and possibly modifying and retesting them; and finally communicating the results. (p.6) Having its roots in psychology and cognitive functions, creativity can be used as an interdisciplinary concept which can be applied to teaching second language skills such as writing and speaking. For instance, descriptive writing can be facilitated by the provision of a range of creativity-based activities which will enrich the learners' language learning experience. Vecino (2007) applied the creativity concept in teaching writing with an appealing strategy. Therefore, Pardlow (2003) view on creative writing may be supported by this statement. This current study presented a statistically significant correlation between variables of creative thinking and construct of descriptive writing capability in EFL learners. In this regard, creative thinking as a cognitive function can be enhanced through various methods and it can have its outcomes in productive tasks, namely, writing which is, in this study, canalized into descriptive facet.