Ágnes Albert

Stories students tell

Creativity and oral narrative task performance of English majors in Hungary


Novel features of more recent theories of creativity

Current models of creativity tend to be more complex as the area is dominated by multi-componential approaches. Besides cognitive components, these models heavily rely on personality and motivational variables as well. These multi-componential theories hypothesise that there are several prerequisites of creativity, that is, multiple components must converge for creativity to emerge. Sternberg and Lubart’s (1991, 1996) investment theory is one example of multi-componential approaches. The model is called investment theory because it predicts that creative people are the ones who are able “to buy low and sell high in the realm of ideas” (Sternberg & Lubart, 1996, p. 683). This means that they pursue ideas that are unknown or unpopular but have growth potential, and, having developed these further, they are eventually able to make profit by persuading others of the value of their ideas. According to this theory, creativity requires six distinct but interrelated resources: intellectual abilities, knowledge, styles of thinking, personality, motivation, and environment. Three intellectual abilities are judged essential with respect to creativity: synthetic ability, which makes it possible for the individual to see problems in new ways and escape the bounds of conventional thinking; analytic ability, which is useful for recognising those ideas that are worth pursuing; and the practical-contextual ability, which helps in persuading others of the usefulness of the individuals’ ideas.

Stories students tell

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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.

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