Ágnes Albert

Stories students tell

Creativity and oral narrative task performance of English majors in Hungary


Creativity in language learning

As stated earlier, creativity is not a frequently researched ID variable within applied linguistics despite the fact that attempts at investigating its effects first appeared more than 20 years ago (Ottó, 1998; Albert & Kormos, 2004). Dörnyei’s (2005) earlier expectation for creativity to become a more influential ID within our field was not fulfilled, and Dörnyei and Ryan (2015) argued that the reason for this might be that the field moved away from the traditional, modular paradigm of IDs that tended to examine them in isolation, without context. However, since the reasons that support a stronger emphasis on creativity, like the “changes in language teaching methodology” (Dörnyei & Ryan, 2015, p. 175) and in fact changes in the whole of education, exemplified by the emergence of different frameworks of 21st century skills (see for example Griffin, McGaw & Care, 2012; Dede, 2010; Trilling & Fadel, 2012) which all include creativity in one way or another, are more relevant than ever before, a new or renewed interest in creativity might be expected.

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.

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