Ágnes Albert

Stories students tell

Creativity and oral narrative task performance of English majors in Hungary


Correlations of creativity and proficiency

When examining correlations of language proficiency and different aspects of creativity on the four tasks of the creativity test (see Table 25), it became obvious that there was no statistically significant relationship between the students’ English proficiency and their performance on the figural, that is, drawing tasks of the creativity test. On the verbal tasks, however, there seemed to be some relationship between creativity and proficiency. On the Unusual Uses subtask, relative flexibility correlated positively with the TOEFL-PBT Listening Comprehension part. The relative flexibility score of the creativity test reflects the number of categories the respondents choose their answers from, irrespective of the actual number of responses they give. The ability of giving a wide variety of answers seemed to be moderately related to listening comprehension skills in this sample.

Stories students tell

Tartalomjegyzék


Kiadó: Akadémiai Kiadó

Online megjelenés éve: 2021

ISBN: 978 963 454 669 6

This monograph presents research conducted in connection with the relationships between individual difference variables, like creativity and language aptitude, and the oral narrative task performance of first year English major university students. Changes in language instruction that involve greater reliance on learners' creativity imply that researching creativity as a potentially important individual variable should be imminent. The prominence of tasks in the classroom and in tests suggests that tasks and their decisive features leading to differences in task performance should also be investigated. The findings of the monograph contribute to a deeper understanding of how different individual differences contribute to oral narrative task performance on the one hand, and on the other, they shed light on the differential effects of task complexity. Therefore, the monograph might be of interest for researchers, course book writers and practising teachers alike.

Hivatkozás: https://mersz.hu/albert-stories-students-tell//

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