Ágnes Albert

Stories students tell

Creativity and oral narrative task performance of English majors in Hungary


Psychometric theories of creativity

Guilford (1950), who was convinced that creativity consists of a stable set of traits, normally distributed in the population, was among the first to put forward a list of cognitive processes involved in creativity. He argued that these processes include sensitivity to problems, synthesising ability, analysing ability, reorganisation or redefinition of organised wholes, evaluation, a high degree of complexity of the conceptual structure, creative fluency of production, ability to come up with novel ideas, and flexibility of mind. The latter three of these are seen as crucial aspects of creativity even today, and numerous creativity tests were designed to measure these abilities (Barkóczi & Zétényi, 1981; Guilford, 1967; Torrance, 1966).

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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