Ágnes Albert

Stories students tell

Creativity and oral narrative task performance of English majors in Hungary


Correlations of proficiency and task performance

It sounds plausible that participants’ level of proficiency in English determines the way they solve a task in that language. This common sense conclusion, however, might not hold equally true for every single measure of task performance since learners’ task performance is also supposed to be shaped by the task itself. In order to shed light on the possible relationships or the lack of them, different measures of language proficiency, the TOEFL-PBT total score and subscores and the C-test score, were correlated with the following measures of task performance: accuracy, fluency, syntactic complexity, quantity of talk, two indices of lexical variety (D index and P_Lex lambda), and the number and ratio of narrative clauses. Findings of the correlational analyses are discussed in the paragraphs below.

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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