Ágnes Albert

Stories students tell

Creativity and oral narrative task performance of English majors in Hungary


Correlations of creativity and task performance

The thorough analysis of the different measures of the creativity test (see section 5.2.1) revealed that using composite scores might not be justifiable as the respondents’ performance varies considerably across the four subtasks of the test. Although the reasons for this might be purely motivational, that is, students might have liked or disliked certain tasks, or they might have got tired of them, it is also possible that the four different tasks of the creativity test measure slightly different things, somewhat different aspects of creativity. Despite this finding, I opted for using composite scores besides the scores of individual tasks in order to make the results of this study comparable with a previous exploratory study (Albert & Kormos, 2004).

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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