Ágnes Albert

Stories students tell

Creativity and oral narrative task performance of English majors in Hungary


Correlations of creativity and aptitude

When examining the relationship between scores of language aptitude and the three aspects of creativity on the different tasks, it is obvious that three out of the four tasks, the two verbal and one figural, seemed to reflect a similar pattern (see Table 27). In the Unusual Uses, Remote Associations, and Picture Completion tasks, creative fluency seemed to be negatively related to some aspect of language aptitude, either to the Hidden Sounds subtask as in the case of Unusual Uses and Picture Completion or to the Language Analysis subtask as in the case of Remote Associations and Picture Completion. Creative fluency reflects the number of responses that the respondents gave on the open-ended tasks. It seems that the more answers the participants gave, the lower they scored either on the Hidden Sounds task reflecting phonetic coding ability or on the Language Analysis part measuring inductive language learning ability.

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.

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