Ágnes Albert

Stories students tell

Creativity and oral narrative task performance of English majors in Hungary


Conclusion

This section discussed the main research question of the study, the relationship of a potentially important individual variable, creativity, and task performance measures. Before analysing this, however, it might be useful to summarise how the level of proficiency and aptitude affected students’ performance on the cognitively less and more complex tasks. Perhaps not surprisingly, the level of English proficiency seemed to determine task performance to a great extent, but in the case of the two tasks with different levels of cognitive complexity slightly different factors seemed to play a greater role. Besides being more accurate and talking more, more proficient speakers seemed to be able to cope with task requirements better: they used the difficult words that the task called for and managed to include more events in the story in the case of the cognitively less complex task, whereas they used more varied vocabulary and talked faster in the case of the cognitively more complex task than their less proficient counterparts.

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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