Ágnes Albert

Stories students tell

Creativity and oral narrative task performance of English majors in Hungary


Introduction

This chapter focuses on oral narrative task performance and the way it is related to individual differences: language aptitude and creativity. As it seems to be evident that performance on a foreign language task is dependent on the learners’ level of proficiency, correlations of oral narrative task performance and English proficiency measures are examined first. Since the oral narrative tasks used in the study differ in cognitive complexity, I will also explore whether the level of English proficiency has a differential role in the case of the cognitively less and more complex tasks. Next, correlations of aptitude and oral narrative task performance measures are examined in an attempt to detect any differences between the less and more complex task. The last section of the chapter investigates the relationships between students’ performance on different tasks of the creativity test and task performance measures. The presentation of the results is followed by the discussion of the findings.

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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