Ágnes Albert

Stories students tell

Creativity and oral narrative task performance of English majors in Hungary


Measuring creativity

When trying to assess a person’s creative potentials, two different approaches can be taken. One option is measuring several non-cognitive aspects of creativity, such as personality and motivation, in addition to intellectual processes and intellectual style as was done by Sternberg and Lubart (1991), who tried to establish individual creativity in this way. Although this approach is more in line with current constructs of creativity which state that it should be considered as a complex interplay of several cognitive, personality, motivational and social factors (Amabile, 1983, 1996; Sternberg & Lubart, 1991, 1996), this could only be achieved through the use of several tests as there does not seem to be one unified instrument which could capture creativity in all its complexity. An alternative, therefore, is to try to assess divergent thinking, the intellectual ability that is thought to be most characteristic of the creative process (Guilford, 1967; Torrance, 1962).

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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