To create is to amplify ones cognitive and social potential. While the first reveals the enactment of their cognitive potential, the latter makes creators use their linguistic skills to convey messages to other parties. The creation and the co-creation of creative works are made more complicated by the influences of audiences, to whom the creative work is created, and the tools used to support the production. Following a creative adaptation model created by a group of interdisciplinary scholars (Rifai., et.al., 2022), this research aims to answer the following questions. First, how does the creative adaptation model portray both cognitive and social creative thinking? Then, what patterns of language discourses do creative workers display as they produce and co-produce creative works? And finally, how do users of different needs benefit from accessing a video book for their language and literacy development? The aforementioned questions emerged after a one-year adaptation project that involved a group of interdisciplinary scholars coming from the fields of English, Film, and Visual Communication Design and a group of English major students who adapted some literary works into digital and multimodal texts like short movies, audio podcasts, and picture books. To answer the emerging questions, this study is to apply mixed research methods that will involve field observation of creative workers as they produce and co-produce creative work, discourse analysis (Mercer, 2012) of the language used by the participants during the interaction, and an experimental study of students of different needs, hearing and the Deafs, as they use a video book for language and literacy learning. The data gathered in the process are materialized into comparative internal thinking and external thinking processes of the creative workers, as well as patterns of discourse during creative production. The experimental part of the study will try out a selfproduced video book to two groups of students: hearing and deaf living in Najran, Saudi Arabia, and Jakarta, Indonesia. Data from their experiences and learning will be used to better improve the quality of the video book.

Creative process ; thinking skill ; discourse analysis; experimental study

• Irfan Rifai, S.Pd., M.Ed., Ph.D

• Adilla Amelia, S.Sos., MFA

• Dr. Maria Tamarina Prawati, S.Pd., MA.Ed.