Ágnes Albert

Stories students tell

Creativity and oral narrative task performance of English majors in Hungary


Correlations with subtests of creativity

Table 31 presents correlations of one of the verbal tasks of the creativity test, Unusual Uses, and task performance measures on the two tasks. Examining the two tasks separately, it becomes obvious that in the case of Task 1, the cognitively less complex task, there was only one statistically significant relationship in the table and that is between average originality and fluency (rs = .31). There were altogether four correlations between different measures of creativity and the task performance measures of Task 2, the cognitively more complex task. Syntactic complexity on Task 2 correlated with creative fluency (rs = .37), the quantity of talk with average originality (rs = .31), one measure of lexical variety, the D index with relative flexibility (rs = .31), and the ratio of narrative clauses with creative fluency (rs = .41).

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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