Ágnes Albert

Stories students tell

Creativity and oral narrative task performance of English majors in Hungary


Conceptualizing language aptitude

Despite the fact that the first studies on language aptitude were conducted as early as the 1920s, modern foreign language aptitude testing actually started with John B. Carroll’s and Stanley Sapon’s work and the construction of the Modern Aptitude Test (MLAT, Carroll & Sapon, 1959), which will be described in more detail in section 2.2.1.2, devoted to issues of aptitude measurement. The construction of the MLAT was based on practical rather than theoretical considerations, and the underlying cognitive abilities tapped by the test were only established later with the help of different multivariate statistical analyses (Dörnyei, 2005).

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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