Ágnes Albert

Stories students tell

Creativity and oral narrative task performance of English majors in Hungary


Correlations of aptitude and task performance

Despite studies indicating that language aptitude largely determines the rate of progress when learning a foreign language (Carroll, 1981), its relationship with language proficiency in the case of intermediate and advanced learners, that is, at a high level of ultimate attainment, is not so straightforward, as could be seen in section 7.3.1 of this monograph. The question arises whether it is possible at all to find any relationship between language aptitude scores and specific task performance measures for the cognitively less and more complex tasks. Similarly to the previous section, the correlations between language aptitude and task performance measures for the two tasks (see Table 30) were analysed separately before comparing them along the different measures.

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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