Ágnes Albert

Stories students tell

Creativity and oral narrative task performance of English majors in Hungary


Task definitions in TBLT

The assumption that transacting tasks involves the activation of naturalistic acquisition mechanisms (Long, 1985, Skehan, 1996), and therefore tasks should be the basic unit of instruction, led to the birth of TBLT and inevitably brought along an interest in tasks among researchers. It seemed essential to learn more about the nature of tasks before they could be confidently used in task-based syllabuses. This led to a mushrooming of research on those aspects of tasks that influence the kind of output people produce on them, and a heightened interest in the definition of task. Different authors working within this framework have adopted numerous definitions, some very broad as well as more restricted ones. Long’s (1985) definition is probably the most general; he defines a task as:

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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