Ágnes Albert

Stories students tell

Creativity and oral narrative task performance of English majors in Hungary


Creativity and perception

Besides those intellectual processes that are specifically regarded as relevant to creativity, such as divergent thinking, it seems that creativity can be manifested in even the most basic cognitive processes. One such cognitive process that might be influenced by creativity is perception (Flowers & Garbing, 1989). Although perception as an information reduction process is generally considered to be incompatible with creativity, it has some characteristics that can be shown to have some relevance for it. There seem to be two distinct categories of perceptual processes which might be related to creativity: one of them is the involuntary processes of perceptual organisation and the other one is the processes of executive control exercised by the individual.

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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