Ágnes Albert

Stories students tell

Creativity and oral narrative task performance of English majors in Hungary


Conclusion

Having reviewed a selection of the most important theories of creativity, it might be easier to understand why creativity is still a mostly neglected individual variable in SLA research, and why some authors feel that it is neglected within mainstream psychology as well (Sternberg, & Lubart, 1999) although this trend seems to be changing currently (Corazza & de Saint-Laurent, 2020; Zhang & Jiang, 2020). First of all, although the concept of creativity is taken up and discussed by a wide range of schools and approaches within psychology, the construct of creativity is defined very differently by them, making the different constructs virtually impossible to compare. The difficulties with the measurement of the construct described above might also be partly held responsible for the fact that SLA research of individual learner variables has failed to investigate the effects of creativity.

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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